Neural mechanisms of human texture processing: Texture boundary detection and visual search

Spatial Vision

Volumn 18, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 227-257

  Thielscher, Axel ^a   Neumann, Heiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Area V4; Context modulation; Feedback; Neural model; Texture processing; Visual search

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUROLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEXTURES;

AREA V4; CONTEXT MODULATION; NEURAL MODEL; TEXTURE BOUNDARY DETECTION; TEXTURE PROCESSING; VISUAL SEARCH;

VISION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VISUAL CORTEX;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 17044425683     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568568053320594     Document Type: Review

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