Attention in the real world: Toward understanding its neural basis

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 242-250

  Peelen, Marius V ^a   Kastner, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Natural scenes; Object perception; Vision; Visual search

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; VISION;

ATTENTION; BASIC PRINCIPLES; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; NATURAL SCENES; OBJECT PERCEPTION; TARGET LOCATION; VISUAL CORTEXES; VISUAL SEARCH;

NEUROIMAGING;

ATTENTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; VISUAL CORTEX; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; VISION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84899489333     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.02.004     Document Type: Review

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