When an object is more than a binding of its features: Evidence for two mechanisms of visual feature integration

Visual Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 120-140

  Hommel, Bernhard ^a   Colzato, Lorenza S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Event file; Feature integration; Object perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 58649104698     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280802349787     Document Type: Article

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