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Perceptual organization of local elements into global shapes in the human visual cortex.

Christian F. Altmann, +2 more
- 18 Feb 2003 - 
- Vol. 13, Iss: 4, pp 342-349
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Using human fMRI, it is demonstrated that not only higher occipitotemporal but also early retinotopic areas are involved in the perceptual organization and detection of global shapes and provides novel evidence for the role of both early feature integration processes and higher stages of visual analysis in coherent visual perception.
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This article is published in Current Biology.The article was published on 2003-02-18 and is currently open access. It has received 238 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Visual perception & Visual cortex.

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The human visual cortex

TL;DR: Recent findings and methods employed to uncover the functional properties of the human visual cortex focusing on two themes: functional specialization and hierarchical processing are reviewed.
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A Century of Gestalt Psychology in Visual Perception I. Perceptual Grouping and Figure-Ground Organization

TL;DR: An integrated review of the neural mechanisms involved in contour grouping, border ownership, and figure-ground perception is concluded by evaluating what modern vision science has offered compared to traditional Gestalt psychology, whether the authors can speak of a Gestalt revival, and where the remaining limitations and challenges lie.
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The composite face illusion: A whole window into our understanding of holistic face perception

TL;DR: The composite face effect as discussed by the authors has been used in more than 60 studies that have provided information about the specificity and nature of perceptual integration between facial parts, the impairment of this process in acquired prosopagnosia, its developmental course, temporal dynamics, and neural basis.
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Specialization for written words over objects in the visual cortex.

TL;DR: The results concur with recent comparisons of literates and illiterates and suggest that these early visual activations reflect the effects of perceptual learning under pressure for fast, parallel processing that is more prominent in reading than other visual cognitive processes.
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Layer-specific fMRI reflects different neuronal computations at different depths in human V1.

TL;DR: New evidence is provided for the differential sensitivity of high-field fMRI to modulations of the neural responses at different cortical depths and laminar profiles in response to parvocellular- targeting stimuli peak in more superficial layers.
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