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. 1997 Oct 22;264(1387):1407–1414. doi: 10.1098/rspb.1997.0196

Functional segregation and temporal hierarchy of the visual perceptive systems.

K Moutoussis 1, S Zeki 1
PMCID: PMC1688701  PMID: 9364780

Abstract

In extending our previous work, we addressed the question of whether different visual attributes are perceived separately when they belong to different objects, rather than the same one. Using our earlier psychophysical method, but separating the attributes to be paired in two different halves of the screen, we found that human subjects misbind the colour and the direction of motion, or the colour and the orientation of lines, because colour, form, and motion are perceived separately and at different times. The results therefore show that there is a perceptual temporal hierarchy in vision.

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