The role of local and global processing in the recognition of living and nonliving things

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 982-986

  Thomas, Richard ^a   Forde, Emer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Hierarchical processing; Integrative agnosia; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; VISUAL MEMORY;

AGNOSIA; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33644945518     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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