Neural correlates of visual crowding

NeuroImage

Volumn 93, Issue P1, 2014, Pages 23-31

  Chicherov, Vitaly ^a   Plomp, Gijs ^a,b   Herzog, Michael H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING (VISION); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; N1 COMPONENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; P1 COMPONENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERNIER ACUITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896999501     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.02.021     Document Type: Article

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