Neural mechanisms mediating responses to abutting gratings: Luminance edges vs. illusory contours

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 181-199

  Song, Yuning ^a   Baker, Curtis L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Figure ground segregation; Illusory contours; Receptive field; Texture segregation; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; GRATING; ILLUSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; CELL COUNT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33646153763     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523806232036     Document Type: Article

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