The temporo-parietal junction contributes to global gestalt perception- Evidence from studies in chess experts

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Rennig, Johannes ^a   Bilalić, Merim ^b   Huberle, Elisabeth ^a,c   Karnath, Hans Otto ^a,d   Himmelbach, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Luzerner Kantonsspital   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chess; Expertise; FMRI; Gestalt perception; Object perception; Simultanagnosia; Temporo parietal junction; Visual grouping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CHESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GAME; GLOBAL GESTALT PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SKILL; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84884693298     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00513     Document Type: Article

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