Human gamma band activity and perception of a gestalt

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 7152-7161

  Keil, Andreas ^a   Müller, Matthias M ^a   Ray, William J ^b   Gruber, Thomas ^a   Elbert, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguous figures; Event related potentials; Gamma band activity; High density electroencephalography; Human; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0344172152     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-16-07152.1999     Document Type: Article

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