Neuronal integration in visual cortex elevates face category tuning to conscious face perception

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 52, 2012, Pages 21504-21509

  Fahrenfort, Johannes J ^a   Snijders, Tineke M ^b,c   Heinen, Klaartje ^d   Van Gaal, Simon ^a,e,f   Scholte, H Steven ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f NeuroSpin   (France)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Figure ground segregation; Object categorization; Perceptual organization; Recurrent processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONSCIOUSNESS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84871830301     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207414110     Document Type: Article

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