The neural mechanisms underlying the Müller-Lyer illusion and its interaction with visuospatial judgments

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 878-884

  Weidner, Ralph ^a   Fink, Gereon R ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Bottom up; Illusion; Top down; Visuospatial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; NERVE NET; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947207538     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhk042     Document Type: Article

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