Exogenous attention enhances 2nd-order contrast sensitivity

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1086-1098

  Barbot, Antoine ^a   Landy, Michael S ^a   Carrasco, Marisa ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Contrast sensitivity; Second order processing; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; ROTATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 79955143679     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.02.022     Document Type: Article

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