Early electrophysiological indices of illusory contour processing within the lateral occipital complex are virtually impervious to manipulations of illusion strength

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4074-4085

  Altschuler, Ted S ^a,b   Molholm, Sophie ^a,b,c   Russo, Natalie N ^a   Snyder, Adam C ^a,b   Brandwein, Alice B ^a,d   Blanco, Daniella ^a,b   Foxe, John J ^a,b,c,d  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Illusory contours; Object processing; Visual evoked potentials; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857030846     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.051     Document Type: Article

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