Visual processing in rapid-chase systems: Image processing, attention, and awareness

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2011, Pages

  Schmidt, Thomas ^a   Haberkamp, Anke ^a   Veltkamp, G Marina ^a   Weber, Andreas ^a   Seydell Greenwald, Anna ^b   Schmidt, Filipp ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature based attention; Lightness; Objects; Phobias; Rapid chase; Response priming; Visual awareness; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861191167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00169     Document Type: Article

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