Visual Attention

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 243-250

  Treue, S ^a   Katzner, S ^b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature based attention; Gain modulation; Object based attention; Receptive field; Saliency; Spatial attention; Tuning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882882024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00242-4     Document Type: Chapter

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