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SUBMITTER: de-Wit LH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4129382 | biostudies-other | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
de-Wit Lee H LH Kubilius Jonas J Op de Beeck Hans P HP Wagemans Johan J
i-Perception 20131022 8
We report converging evidence that higher stages of the visual system are critically required for the whole to become more than the sum of its parts by studying patient DF with visual agnosia using a configural superiority paradigm. We demonstrate a clear dissociation between this patient and normal controls such that she could more easily report information about parts, demonstrating a striking reversal of the normal configural superiority effect. Furthermore, by comparing DF's performance to e ...[more]