The observant mind: Self-awareness of attentional status

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1699, 2010, Pages 3421-3426

  Yamagishi, Noriko ^a,b,d   Anderson, Stephen J ^c   Kawato, Mitsuo ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Human vision; Internal state; Rise to threshold model; Self monitoring

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; GAUSSIAN METHOD; PARADIGM SHIFT; PERCEPTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISUAL CUE;

EID: 78149245184     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0891     Document Type: Article

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