Rethinking human visual attention: Spatial cueing effects and optimality of decisions by honeybees, monkeys and humans

Vision Research

Volumn 85, Issue , 2013, Pages 5-19

  Eckstein, Miguel P ^a   Mack, Stephen C ^a   Liston, Dorion B ^b,c   Bogush, Lisa ^d   Menzel, Randolf ^d   Krauzlis, Richard J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian ideal observer; Computational modeling; Human monkey bee psychophysics; Posner cueing paradigm; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HAPLORHINI; HONEYBEE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; SPATIAL CUEING EFFECT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUOSPATIAL CUE;

EID: 84886250704     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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