Early Spatial Frequency Processing of Natural Images: An ERP Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  De Cesarei, Andrea ^a   Mastria, Serena ^a   Codispoti, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878621266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065103     Document Type: Article

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