Duration of coherence intervals in electrical brain activity in perceptual organization

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 365-382

  Nikolaev, Andrey R ^a,b   Gepshtein, Sergei ^a,c   Gong, Pulin ^a,d   Van Leeuwen, Cees ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

EEG; Extreme value distribution; Perceptual ambiguity; Perceptual grouping; Quasi stable synchrony pattern

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; BETA RHYTHM; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74249121915     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp107     Document Type: Article

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