Mechanisms of perceptual organization provide auto-zoom and auto-localization for attention to objects

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

Volumn 108, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 7583-7588

  Mihalas, Stefan ^a   Dong, Yi ^a   Von Der Heydt, Rüdiger ^a   Niebur, Ernst ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Border ownership; Computational model; Figure ground segregation; Proto object; Top down attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79956334139     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014655108     Document Type: Article

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