title: Event-related potentials show configural specificity of global form processing.
abstract: Glass patterns are a type of moiré created when a random-dot field is overlaid with a rotated, translated or dilated copy. The overall form of the moiré cannot be detected using local processing mechanisms, and because of this, Glass patterns are useful probes of global form processing. Here, we use event-related potentials to show that certain global organizations (concentric structure created by rotation and radial structure produced by dilation) produce much larger brain responses than others (linear structure created by translation). The results are consistent with the existence of specialized form processing mechanisms in the extrastriate cortex.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Neuroscience, Stella Maris Institute, Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pei
authors.forename: Mark W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Pettet
authors.forename: Vladimir Y
authors.initials: VY
authors.lastname: Vildavski
authors.forename: Anthony M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Norcia
mesh_terms: D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*