Stella X. Yu : Papers / Google Scholar

Feature Transitions with Saccadic Search: Size, Color, and Orientation Are Not Alike
Stella X. Yu
Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 6-9 Dec 2010
Paper | Slides

Abstract
Size, color, and orientation have long been considered elementary features whose attributes are extracted in parallel and available to guide the deployment of attention. If each is processed in the same fashion with simply a different set of local detectors, one would expect similar search behaviours on localizing an equivalent flickering change among identically laid out disks. We analyze feature transitions associated with saccadic search and find out that size, color, and orientation are not alike in dynamic attribute processing over time. The Markovian feature transition is attractive for size, repulsive for color, and largely reversible for orientation.

Keywords
visual attention, change blindness, elementary features, feature transition, visual crowding