The electrophysiological correlate of contour integration is modulated by task demands

Brain Research

Volumn 1114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 98-112

  Mathes, Birgit ^a   Trenner, Dennis ^a   Fahle, Manfred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b The Henry Wellcome Applied Vision Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Closure; Contour integration; Event related potential; Task demand; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVALUATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECORDING; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33748777685     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.07.068     Document Type: Article

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