Neural correlates of size illusions: An event-related potential study

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 809-814

  Liu, Qiang ^a,b   Wu, Ying ^a,b   Yang, Qun ^a,b   Campos, Jennifer L ^c,d   Zhang, Qinglin ^a,b   Sun, Hong Jin ^b,d  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Primary visual cortex; Size illusion; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIZE ILLUSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649671920     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32832be7c0     Document Type: Article

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