Neural mechanisms of visual associative processing

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 239-252

  Eckhorn, Reinhard ^a   Gail, Alexander ^a   Bruns, Andreas ^a   Gabriel, Andreas ^a   Al Shaikhli, Basim ^a   Saam, Mirko ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feature binding; Gamma activity; Scene segmentation; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GAMMA NERVE FIBER; HUMAN; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAPLORHINI; MICROELECTRODES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2442468767     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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