Attentional modulation of adaptation to illusory lines

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 434-444

  Montaser Kouhsari, Leila ^a   Rajimehr, Reza ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Attention; Early visual cortical areas; Illusory line; Orientation selective adaptation; Tilt aftereffect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; ORIENTATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 3843088745     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.6.3     Document Type: Article

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