Cortical oscillatory activity associated with the perception of illusory and real visual contours

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 265-272

  Kinsey, K ^a   Anderson, S J ^a   Hadjipapas, A ^a   Nevado, A ^b   Hillebrand, A ^c   Holliday, I E ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Gamma; Illusory contours; MEG; Object recognition; SAM; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 67651151071     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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