Illusory contours do not pass through the blind spot

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-101

  Maertens, Marianne ^a,b   Pollmann, Stefan ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33846229137     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.1.91     Document Type: Article

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