Development of brain mechanisms for visual global processing and object segmentation

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 164, Issue , 2007, Pages 151-168

  Braddick, Oliver ^a   Atkinson, Janette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

figure ground; global form motion; infant vision; object perception; reaching; segmentation; visual development

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; KINEMATICS; MOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34848892371     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)64008-4     Document Type: Review

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