Attentive and pre-attentive aspects of figural processing

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1-12

  Appelbaum, Lawrence G ^a   Norcia, Anthony M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; EEG; Figure ground segmentation; Non linear spatio temporal interactions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FORM PERCEPTION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 70449704297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.11.1     Document Type: Article

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