Texture-surround suppression of contour-shape coding in human vision

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-8

  Kingdom, Frederick A A ^b   Prins, Nicolaas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contour shape coding; Shape after effect; Texture surround inhibition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTOUR SHAPE CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149267785     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32831578ca     Document Type: Article

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