The time-course of global and local attentional guidance in Kanizsa-figure detection

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2456-2464

  Conci, Markus ^a   Töllner, Thomas ^a   Leszczynski, Marcin ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Kanizsa figure; Local global processing; Perceptual grouping; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960189579     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.04.023     Document Type: Article

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