Perceptual organization of local elements into global shapes in the human visual cortex

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 342-349

  Altmann, Christian F ^a   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a   Kourtzi, Zoe ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037452562     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00052-6     Document Type: Article

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