Topological change disturbs object continuity in attentive tracking

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 50, 2010, Pages 21920-21924

  Zhou, Ke ^a   Luo, Huan ^a   Zhou, Tiangang ^a   Zhuo, Yan ^a   Chen, Lin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Attention; Global first; Object based; Topological definition of objects; Topological transformation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COLOR; EYE TRACKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTION; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 78650742738     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010919108     Document Type: Article

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