Characterizing the nature of visual conscious access: The distinction between features and locations

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Huang, Liqiang ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Boolean map; Visual attention; Visual feature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955145608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.10.24     Document Type: Article

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