Contextual effects in the early visual system and their modulation by attention

The visual system is sensitive to differences in features, like orientation or luminance, over space. Local differences in features allow us to detect boundaries in the environment â a critical step for segmenting and detecting meaningful figures or objects. However, additional feature-tuned mechani...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poltoratski, Sonia
Other Authors: Frank Tong
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2017
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-08062017-164720/