Visual attention: The past 25 years

2011/04/30 by Marisa Carrasco · 2,590 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Contrast (vision) #Covert #Feature (linguistics) #N2pc #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies #Neural dynamics and brain function #Neuroimaging #Neuroscience #Perception #Psychology #Selective attention #Visual attention #Visual perception #Visual perception and processing mechanisms #Visual spatial attention

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.visres.2011.04.012

published in Vision Research 51(13), 1484-1525 (Elsevier BV)

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