From salience to saccades: Multiple-alternative gated stochastic accumulator model of visual search

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3433-3446

  Purcell, Braden A ^a   Schall, Jeffrey D ^a   Logan, Gordon D ^a   Palmeri, Thomas J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; MACACA RADIATA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORY GATING; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; VISION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL SALIENCE; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA RADIATA; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SENSORY GATING; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857837905     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4622-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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