Influence of low-level stimulus features, task dependent factors, and spatial biases on overt visual attention

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Kollmorgen, Sepp ^a,b   Nortmann, Nora ^a   Schröder, Sylvia ^a,b   König, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BOTTOM UP; DEPENDENT FACTORS; IMAGE REGIONS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; MODEL ASSUMPTIONS; OVERT VISUAL ATTENTIONS; TOPDOWN; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL FEATURE; VISUAL TASKS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FACE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 77955504067     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000791     Document Type: Article

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