Cutting through the clutter: Searching for targets in evolving complex scenes

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Neider, Mark B ^a   Zelinsky, Gregory J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Eye movements; Feature congestion; Visual clutter; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84855428855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.14.7     Document Type: Article

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