Masking interrupts figure-ground signals in V1

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1044-1053

  Lamme, Victor A F ^a   Zipser, Karl ^a   Spekreijse, Henk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HAPLORHINI; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036791229     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892902320474490     Document Type: Article

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