Blue piglets? Electrophysiological evidence for the primacy of shape over color in object recognition

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 288-300

  Proverbio, Alice Mado ^a,b,c   Burco, Fabiana ^b   Del Zotto, Marzia ^a,c   Zani, Alberto ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hemispheric asymmetry; Object color knowledge; Selective attention; Ventral stream; VEP; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHAPE DISCRIMINATION; SWINE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOPOGRAPHY; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 1642451974     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.10.020     Document Type: Article

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