Preeti Verghese

 

Attention psychophysics

demos and tutorials

 


papers

 

The locus of attentional effects in texture segmentation.
Yeshurun Y, Carrasco M. Nature Neuroscience, 3(6):622-627, 2000. [pdf]

Attention improves or impairs visual performance by enhancing spatial resolution.
Yeshurun Y, Carrasco M. Nature, 396(6706):72-5, 1998. [pdf]

Perceptual learning reflects external noise filtering and internal noise reduction through channel reweighting.
Dosher BA, Lu ZL, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 95(23):13988-93, 1998. [pdf]

External noise distinguishes attention mechanisms.
Lu ZL, Dosher BA, Vision Res, 38(9):1183-98, 1998. [pdf]

Mechanisms of perceptual attention in precuing of location.
Dosher BA, Lu ZL. Vision Res 40(10-12):1269-92, 2000. [pdf]

Measuring the amplification of attention.
Blaser E, Sperling G, Lu ZL. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 96(20):11681-6 1999. [pdf]

Visual search and attention: a signal detection theory approach.
Verghese P. Neuron, 31(4):523-35, 2001. [pdf]

The psychophysics of visual search.
Palmer J, Verghese P, Pavel M. Vision Res,40(10-12):1227-68, 2000. [pdf]

The lower noise search efficiency for conjunctions is due to noise and not serial attentional processing.
Eckstein MP, Psychological Science, 9, 111-118, 1998. [pdf]

The footprints of attention in the Posner cueing paradigm revealed by classification images.
Eckstein MP, Shimozaki, S & Abbey, CK., Journal of Vision, 2, 25-45, 2002. [pdf]

Attentional effects in visual search: relating search accuracy and search time.
Palmer, J. In R. Wright, Visual attention pp. 348-388, New York, Oxford University Press, 1998. [pdf]

Uncertainty about spatial frequency, spatial position or contrast of visual patterns.
Davis, ET, Kramer, P & Graham N, Perception & Psychophysics, 33, 20-28, 1983.

Spatial covert attention increases contrast sensitivity across the CSF: support for signal enhancement.
Carrasco M, Penpeci-Talgar C, Eckstein M. Vision Res, 40(10-12):1203-15, 2000. [pdf]


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