Multistable perception: When bottom-up and top-down coincide

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 138-147

  Kornmeier, Jürgen ^a,b   Hein, Christine Maira ^c   Bach, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambiguous figures; Bistable perception; Bottom up; Multistable perception; Necker cube; Top down volitional control; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOTTOM UP APPROACH; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MULTISTABLE PERCEPTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; TOP DOWN APPROACH; VISION;

ADULT; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 58549105699     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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