The spatiotemporal profile of cortical processing leading up to visual perception

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Fahrenfort, Johannes J ^a,c   Scholte, H S ^a   Lamme, V A F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Feedback processing; Feedforward processing; Figure ground segregation; Recurrent processing; Reentrant processing; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38349154860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.1.12     Document Type: Article

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