Confuse Your Illusion: Feedback to Early Visual Cortex Contributes to Perceptual Completion

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-71

  Wokke, Martijn E ^a   Vandenbroucke, Annelinde R E ^a   Scholte, H Steven ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cognitive neuroscience; consciousness; object recognition; visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872362705     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612449175     Document Type: Article

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