Attention modulates spatio-temporal grouping

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 435-446

  Aydin, Murat ^a   Herzog, Michael H ^b   Öĝmen, Haluk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Perceptual grouping; Ternus Pikler display

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 79952009041     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.12.013     Document Type: Article

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