Cognitive architecture of perceptual organization: From neurons to gnosons

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-40

  Van Der Helm, Peter A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive architecture; Cognitive processing; Distributed representations; Feature binding; Neuronal synchronization; Perceptual organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROSCIENCE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; METAPHOR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84860883338     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-011-0425-9     Document Type: Article

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