The illusory contour is one of the most often used models in studies of Gestalt perception. In our MEG study we observed the so-called illusory contour effect (IC-effect): the activity of nonprimary visual and associative cortical areas was increased during the 150-250 ms time window after a...

The causes of everyday errors made by most people remain largely unknown. In order to investigate spontaneous lapses in attentional processing a new task was designed. This task creates an increased attentional load because it is based on impeded decision making involving both stimuli feature...

The nature of interrelations of brain event-related potentials to behavioral measures and temperament dimensions was studied in the situation of attention under the auditory oddball paradigm. Several components of event-related potentials were found to be related to Extraversion, Mobility,...