Selective Bayes: Attentional load and crowding

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2248-2260

  Dayan, Peter ^a   Solomon, Joshua A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional load; Bayesian vision; Cortical magnification; Crowding; Eriksen flanker task; Selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77957753248     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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