Parietal cortex mediates conscious perception of illusory gestalt

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 523-531

  Zaretskaya, Natalia ^a   Anstis, Stuart ^b   Bartels, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872077120     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2905-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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