Top-Down Control in Contour Grouping

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Volberg, Gregor ^a   Wutz, Andreas ^a,b   Greenlee, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CONTOUR INTEGRATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; TOP DOWN CONTROL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84872243268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054085     Document Type: Article

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