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Surface segregation influences pre-attentive search in depth

Date

Authors

Wheatley, Christopher Paul

Cook, Michael

Vidyasagar, Trichur

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Abstract

While searching for an object in a cluttered scene, in some situations, the visual system adopts a pre-attentive parallel search, where the time taken is independent of the number of items in the scene. In others, the search is serial, time taken being a

Keywords

Keywords: article; attention; controlled study; depth perception; eye fixation; human; human experiment; priority journal; stimulus response; vision; visual stimulation; Attention; Depth Perception; Fixation, Ocular; Humans; Neuropsychological Tests; Pattern Recogn Pre-attentive search; Serial and parallel processing; Stereopsis; Surface segregation; Visual search

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/77670

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

NeuroReport

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1097/00001756-200402090-00018

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