Salience of the lambs: A test of the saliency map hypothesis with pictures of emotive objects

Journal of Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Humphrey, Katherine ^a   Underwood, Geoffrey ^b   Lambert, Tony ^c  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Emotion; Scanpaths; Visual saliency

Indexed keywords

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

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84862113641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/12.1.22     Document Type: Article

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