Simulating simultanagnosia: Spatially constricted vision mimics local capture and the global processing deficit

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 445-455

  Dalrymple, Kirsten A ^a   Bischof, Walter F ^b   Cameron, David ^a   Barton, Jason J S ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; B lint syndrome; Gaze contingent; Hierarchical stimuli; Simultanagnosia

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951092342     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-2152-3     Document Type: Article

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