Contextual masking of oriented lines: Interactions between surface segmentation cues

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 576-589

  Van Der Smagt, Maarten J ^a,b,d   Wehrhahn, Christian ^b,c   Albright, Thomas D ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LUMINANCE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 21544446384     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00366.2004     Document Type: Article

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