The advantage of ambiguity? Enhanced neural responses to multi-stable percepts correlate with the degree of perceived instability

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUGUST, 2011, Pages

  Dyson, Benjamin J ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambiguous stimuli; Auditory evoked responses; Perceptual intention; Perceptual stability; Visual evoked responses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 84933679015     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00073     Document Type: Article

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