Dynamic coding of border-ownership in visual cortex

Journal of Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Layton, Oliver W ^a   Mingolla, Ennio ^b   Yazdanbakhsh, Arash ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Border ownership; Figure ground segregation; Interareal connections; Receptive fields; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84878195414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/12.13.8     Document Type: Article

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