An objective signature for visual binding of face parts in the human brain

Journal of Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Boremanse, Adriano ^a   Norcia, Anthony M ^b   Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Gestalt; Holistic perception; Intermodulation; Inversion; Nonlinearity; ssVEP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886248499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/13.11.6     Document Type: Article

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