Perceiving the tree in the woods: Segregating brain responses to stimuli constituting natural scenes

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 48, 2011, Pages 17713-17718

  Martens, Ulla ^a   Trujillo Barreto, Nelson ^b   Gruber, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b CUBAN NEUROSCIENCE CENTER   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 82555200850     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4743-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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