Object perception: When our brain is impressed but we dot not notice it

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kornmeier, Jürgen ^a,b   Bach, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambiguous figures; Bistable perception; EEG; ERP; Event related potentials; Instable perception; Multistable perception; Necker cube; Object perception; Old young woman; Perceptual ambiguity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249095010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.1.7     Document Type: Article

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