Electrophysiological evidence of a perceptual precedence of global vs. local visual information

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 321-334

  Proverbio, Alice Mado ^a   Minniti, Alessia ^a   Zani, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b Ist Psicol Cons Naz Delle R   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attentional selection; Compound stimuli; ERPs; Global advantage; Global and local visual information; Hemispheric asymmetry; N115; Selection negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GEOGRAPHIC OPHTHALMOLOGY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031806550     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(97)00039-6     Document Type: Article

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