Visual Search and Attention

A feature-integration theory of attention

1980 • 11,909 citations

Neural Mechanisms of Selective Visual Attention

1995 • 7,776 citations

Selective Attention Gates Visual Processing in the Extrastriate Cortex

2003 • 2,192 citations

Feature analysis in early vision: Evidence from search asymmetries.

1988 • 2,186 citations

Normalization of cell responses in cat striate cortex

1992 • 1,861 citations

Selective attention and the organization of visual information.

1984 • 1,657 citations

Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Selective Attention in Areas V1, V2, and V4 of Macaque Visual Cortex

1997 • 1,653 citations

A selective impairment of motion perception following lesions of the middle temporal visual area (MT)

1988 • 1,612 citations

Selective attention and the organization of visual information.

1984 • 1,526 citations

Feature-based attention influences motion processing gain in macaque visual cortex

1999 • 1,483 citations

Competitive Mechanisms Subserve Attention in Macaque Areas V2 and V4

1999 • 1,246 citations

Effects of Attention on Orientation-Tuning Functions of Single Neurons in Macaque Cortical Area V4

1999 • 1,241 citations

Contrast masking in human vision

1980 • 1,186 citations

Focal attention produces spatially selective processing in visual cortical areas V1, V2, and V4 in the presence of competing stimuli

1993 • 1,069 citations

Neuronal responses to static texture patterns in area V1 of the alert macaque monkey

1992 • 1,059 citations

Attentional modulation of visual motion processing in cortical areas MT and MST

1996 • 1,059 citations

Visual attention

1989 • 1,047 citations

Involvement of striate and extrastriate visual cortical areas in spatial attention

1999 • 963 citations

Objects and attention: the state of the art

2001 • 945 citations

fMRI evidence for objects as the units of attentional selection

1999 • 857 citations

Search asymmetry: A diagnostic for preattentive processing of separable features.

1985 • 856 citations

Increased Attention Enhances Both Behavioral and Neuronal Performance

1988 • 835 citations

Behavioral enhancement of visual responses in monkey cerebral cortex. I. Modulation in posterior parietal cortex related to selective visual attention

1981 • 780 citations

Search asymmetry: A diagnostic for preattentive processing of separable features.

1985 • 737 citations

A physiological correlate of the 'spotlight' of visual attention

1999 • 729 citations

Spatial attention affects brain activity in human primary visual cortex

1999 • 697 citations

Activity of superior colliculus in behaving monkey. II. Effect of attention on neuronal responses.

1972 • 541 citations

Contrast dependence of contextual effects in primate visual cortex

1997 • 517 citations

External noise distinguishes attention mechanisms

1998 • 509 citations

Spatial covert attention increases contrast sensitivity across the CSF: support for signal enhancement

2000 • 466 citations

The psychophysics of visual search

2000 • 461 citations

Attention activates winner-take-all competition among visual filters

1999 • 454 citations

Set-size effects in visual search: The effect of attention is independent of the stimulus for simple tasks

1994 • 352 citations

Measuring the effect of attention on simple visual search.

1993 • 335 citations

Effects of Attention on the Reliability of Individual Neurons in Monkey Visual Cortex

1999 • 290 citations

A signal detection model predicts the effects of set size on visual search accuracy for feature, conjunction, triple conjunction, and disjunction displays

2000 • 273 citations

Noise Exclusion in Spatial Attention

2000 • 273 citations

Mechanisms of perceptual attention in precuing of location

2000 • 227 citations

Negligible effect of spatial precuing on identification of single digits.

1994 • 224 citations

Neural Mechanisms of Visual Perception

1997 • 212 citations

Visual orientation and spatial frequency discrimination: a comparison of single neurons and behavior

1987 • 209 citations

Characterizing human perceptual inefficiencies with equivalent internal noise

1999 • 204 citations

Visual attention to surfaces in three-dimensional space.

1995 • 197 citations

Attending to multiple sources of information: I. The integration of information in decision making

1982 • 175 citations

Measuring the effect of attention on simple visual search.

1993 • 174 citations

The temporal dynamics of visual search: Evidence for parallel processing in feature and conjunction searches.

1999 • 167 citations

Axis-based neglect of visual shapes

1994 • 162 citations

Stimulus discriminability in visual search

1994 • 132 citations

The temporal dynamics of visual search: Evidence for parallel processing in feature and conjunction searches.

1999 • 113 citations

More on the Detection of One of M Orthogonal Signals

1967 • 110 citations

Segmentation by Color Influences Responses of Motion-Sensitive Neurons in the Cortical Middle Temporal Visual Area

1999 • 79 citations

Selective attention to the parts of an object

2000 • 76 citations

Combining speed information across space

1995 • 74 citations

Neuronal responses to orientation and motion contrast in cat striate cortex

1999 • 72 citations

Attention mechanisms for multi-location first- and second-order motion perception

2000 • 71 citations

Local motion detectors cannot account for the detectability of an extended trajectory in noise

1999 • 70 citations

Signal-detection models for multidimensional stimuli: Probability distributions and combination rules

1987 • 47 citations

Imperfect, Unlimited-Capacity, Parallel Search Yields Large Set-Size Effects

1995 • 32 citations

Objects and attention

2002 • 30 citations

Visual attention to surfaces in 3-D space

1995 • 24 citations