Modeling the role of salience in the allocation of overt visual attention

2002/01/01 by Derrick Parkhurst, Klinton Law, Ernst Niebur · 1,396 citations
Computer Science · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Audiology #Cognitive psychology #Eye movement #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies #Neuroscience #Perception #Psychology #Salience (neuroscience) #Second-order stimulus #Stimulus (psychology) #Visual Attention and Saliency Detection #Visual perception #Visual perception and processing mechanisms

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0042-6989(01)00250-4

published in Vision Research 42(1), 107-123 (Elsevier BV)

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