Inhibition related impairments of coherent motion perception in the attention-induced motion blindness paradigm

Spatial Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 493-509

  Hesselmann, Guido ^a   Allan, Julia L ^b   Sahraie, Arash ^b   Milders, Maarten ^b   Niedeggen, Michael ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Coherent motion; Inhibition; RSVP

Indexed keywords

ATTENTIONAL MECHANISM; CARRY-OVER EFFECTS; COHERENT MOTION; CORTICAL AREAS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES; IN-LINE; INDUCED MOTIONS; MOTION SIGNALS; MOTION TARGET; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; RAPID SERIAL VISUAL PRESENTATIONS; SECOND ORDER MOTION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STRIKING EFFECTS;

EYE PROTECTION; MAGNETIC AMPLIFIERS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77949323678     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: 15685683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856809789822961     Document Type: Article

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