Parallel visual processes in symmetry perception: Normality and pathology

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 359-370

  Wagemans, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; Corpus callosum; Hemineglect; Orientation; Retinitis pigmentosa (RP); Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032323819     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001868710536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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