Spatial structure affects temporal judgments: Evidence for a synchrony binding code

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Cheadle, Samuel ^a   Bauer, Frank ^b   Parton, Andrew ^c   Müller, Hermann ^b   Bonneh, Yoram S ^d   Usher, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Binding problem; Computational model; Figure groud; Synchrony; Temporal judgment; Visual group

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44949218382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.7.12     Document Type: Article

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