Perceptual benefits of objecthood

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Naber, Marnix ^a   Carlson, Thomas A ^b   Verstraten, Frans A J ^c   Einhäuser, Wolfgang ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Detection discrimination; Object recognition; Perceptual organization; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054104031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.4.1     Document Type: Article

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