Naturalistic Stimulus Structure Determines the Integration of Audiovisual Looming Signals in Binocular Rivalry

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Conrad, Verena ^a   Kleiner, Mario ^a   Bartels, Andreas ^a,b   Hartcher O'Brien, Jessica ^a   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a,c   Noppeney, Uta ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION, BINOCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883193659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070710     Document Type: Article

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