The role of oscillatory brain activity in object processing and figure-ground segmentation in human vision

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 392-400

  Kinsey, K ^a,b   Anderson, S J ^a   Hadjipapas, A ^a,c   Holliday, I E ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binding; Figure ground; Gamma; MEG; Object recognition; SAM; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BETA RHYTHM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAMMA RHYTHM; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ALPHA RHYTHM; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953059552     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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