Visual Working Memory Contents Bias Ambiguous Structure from Motion Perception

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Scocchia, Lisa ^a,b,c   Valsecchi, Matteo ^b   Gegenfurtner, Karl R ^b   Triesch, Jochen ^a  

^a FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORKING MEMORY;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84875087001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059217     Document Type: Article

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