The gamma slideshow: Object-based perceptual cycles in a model of the visual cortex

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Miconi, Thomas ^a,b   VanRullen, Rufin ^a,b  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Computer models; Feedback inhibition; Gamma oscillations; Image segmentation; Perceptual cycles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAMMA RHYTHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL CYCLE; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79953019180     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00205     Document Type: Article

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