Visual perception: larger is faster.
A recent study has shown that neurons in the inferior temporal cortex of the macaque monkey brain show earlier selectivity to global and large shapes than to local and small ones, which may underlie the faster behavioral responses to global aspects of a scene.
Vogels
Rufin
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Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U.Leuven, Faculteit Geneeskunde, Campus Gasthuisberg, O&N2, Box 1021, BE 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Rufin.Vogels@med.kuleuven.be
D000818:Animals; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008251:Macaca / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013045:Species Specificity; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors