Chapter 12 Perceptual filling-in: more than the eye can see

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue SUPPL. A, 2006, Pages 227-245

  Weerd, Peter De ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attention; completion; filling in; illusions; Troxler effect; vision

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; COGNITION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CYTOLOGY; EYE FIXATION; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748927472     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)54012-9     Document Type: Review

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