Defining the units of competition: Influences of perceptual organization on competitive interactions in human visual cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2417-2426

  McMains, Stephanie A ^a   Kastner, Sabine ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; ILLUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049430927     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21391     Document Type: Article

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