Perceptual grouping without awareness: Superiority of Kanizsa triangle in breaking interocular suppression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Lan ^a,b,d   Weng, Xuchu ^a,c   He, Sheng ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEROCULAR SUPPRESSION; KANIZSA TRIANGLE; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTUAL GROUPING; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863110441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040106     Document Type: Article

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