Attentional gating models of object substitution masking

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1130-1141

  Põder, Endel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional gating; Modeling; Object substitution; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VISION;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84887869633     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030575     Document Type: Article

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