The Time Course of Perceptual Grouping in Natural Scenes

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1482-1489

  Korjoukov, Ilia ^a   Jeurissen, Danique ^a   Kloosterman, Niels A ^b   Verhoeven, Josine E ^a   Scholte, H Steven ^b   Roelfsema, Pieter R ^a,c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attention; object recognition; perception; visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871238203     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612443832     Document Type: Article

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