Incremental grouping of image elements in vision

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2542-2572

  Roelfsema, Pieter R ^a,b   Houtkamp, Roos ^a,c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Binding problem; Gestalt grouping; Image parsing; Object recognition; Object based attention; Perceptual organization; Synchronization; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GESTALT THEORY; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; NERVE NET; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 81755166839     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0200-0     Document Type: Article

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