Electrophysiological correlates of figure-ground segregation directly reflect perceptual saliency

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 509-521

  Straube, Sirko ^a   Grimsen, Cathleen ^a   Fahle, Manfred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cue combination; Event related potentials; Figure ground segregation; Human; Identification; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76549086406     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.12.013     Document Type: Article

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