Early stages of figure-ground segregation during perception of the face-vase

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 880-895

  Pitts, Michael A ^a   Martínez, Antígona ^a,b   Brewer, James B ^a   Hillyard, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COLOR; DRAWING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650763196     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21438     Document Type: Article

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