Counting Multidimensional Objects: Implications for the Neural-Synchrony Theory

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 266-271

  Goldfarb, Liat ^a   Treisman, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive neuroscience; cognitive processes; feature binding; neural synchrony; object file theory; visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875019810     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612459761     Document Type: Article

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