The electrophysiological correlate of saliency: Evidence from a figure-detection task

Brain Research

Volumn 1307, Issue , 2010, Pages 89-102

  Straube, Sirko ^a   Fahle, Manfred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cue combination; Detection; ERP; Figure ground segregation; Human; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70749119864     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.043     Document Type: Article

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