Cholinergic enhancement reduces orientation-specific surround suppression but not visual crowding

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages

  Kosovicheva, Anna A ^a   Sheremata, Summer L ^a,b   Rokem, Ariel ^c   Landau, Ayelet N ^d   Silver, Michael A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Crowding; Pharmacology; Psychophysics; Surround suppression

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84866682742     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00061     Document Type: Article

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