Stereoscopic illusory contours - Cortical neuron responses and human perception

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1018-1029

  Heider, Barbara ^a   Spillmann, Lothar ^a   Peterhans, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036791169     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892902320474472     Document Type: Article

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