Dissociable neural correlates of contour completion and contour representation in illusory contour perception.

ABSTRACT: Object recognition occurs even when environmental information is incomplete. Illusory contours (ICs), in which a contour is perceived though the contour edges are incomplete, have been extensively studied as an example of such a visual completion phenomenon. Despite the neural activity in response to ICs in visual cortical areas from low (V1 and V2) to high (LOC: the lateral occipital cortex) levels, the details of the neural processing underlying IC perception are largely not clarified. For example, how do the visual areas function in IC perception and how do they interact to archive the coherent contour perception? IC perception involves the process of completing the local discrete contour edges (contour completion) and the process of representing the global completed contour information

SUBMITTER: Wu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6870262 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature