Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Neural mechanisms of feature binding

  • Insight
  • Published:
Science China Life Sciences Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Bouvier, S., and Treisman, A. (2010). Visual feature binding requires reentry. Psychol Sci 21, 200–204.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Braet, W., and Humphreys, G.W. (2009). The role of reentrant processes in feature binding: Evidence from neuropsychology and TMS on late onset illusory conjunctions. Visual Cognition 17, 25–47.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Di Lollo, V. (2012). The feature-binding problem is an ill-posed problem. Trends Cognitive Sci 16, 317–321.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Esterman, M., Verstynen, T., and Robertson, L.C. (2007). Attenuating illusory binding with TMS of the right parietal cortex. NeuroImage 35, 1247–1255.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Holcombe, A.O., and Cavanagh, P. (2001). Early binding of feature pairs for visual perception. Nat Neurosci 4, 127–128.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Jensen, O., Gips, B., Bergmann, T.O., and Bonnefond, M. (2014). Temporal coding organized by coupled alpha and gamma oscillations prioritize visual processing. Trends Neurosciences 37, 357–369.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Koivisto, M., and Silvanto, J. (2012). Visual feature binding: The critical time windows of V1/V2 and parietal activity. NeuroImage 59, 1608–1614.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pollmann, S., Zinke, W., Baumgartner, F., Geringswald, F., and Hanke, M. (2014). The right temporo-parietal junction contributes to visual feature binding. NeuroImage 101, 289–297.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Seymour, K., Clifford, C.W.G., Logothetis, N.K., and Bartels, A. (2009). The coding of color, motion, and their conjunction in the human visual cortex. Curr Biol 19, 177–183.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Tallon-Baudry, C., and Bertrand, O. (1999). Oscillatory gamma activity in humans and its role in object representation. Trends Cognitive Sci, 3, 151–162..

    Google Scholar 

  • Treisman, A. (1996). The binding problem. Curr Opin NeuroBiol 6, 171–178.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • von der Malsburg, C., and Willshaw, D. (1981). Co-operativity and brain organization. Trends Neurosciences 4, 80–83.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wu, D.A., Kanai, R., and Shimojo, S. (2004). Steady-state misbinding of colour and motion. Nature 429, 262.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Zhang, X., Qiu, J., Zhang, Y., Han, S., and Fang, F. (2014). Misbinding of color and motion in human visual cortex. Curr Biol 24, 1354–1360.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Wang, Y., and Fang, F. (2016). Misbinding of color and motion in human early visual cortex: Evidence from event-related potentials. Vision Res 122, 51–59.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., Cai, P., Luo, H., and Fang, F. (2019). The causal role of α-oscillations in feature binding. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 116, 17023–17028.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Author notes

  1. Contributed equally to this work

Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yifei Zhang, Yan-Yu Zhang & Fang Fang

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yifei Zhang, Yan-Yu Zhang & Fang Fang

  3. Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yifei Zhang, Yan-Yu Zhang & Fang Fang

  4. PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yifei Zhang, Yan-Yu Zhang & Fang Fang

  5. Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yifei Zhang, Yan-Yu Zhang & Fang Fang

Authors
  1. Yifei Zhang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Yan-Yu Zhang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Fang Fang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Yan-Yu Zhang.

Ethics declarations

Compliance and ethics The author(s) declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Zhang, Y., Zhang, YY. & Fang, F. Neural mechanisms of feature binding. Sci. China Life Sci. 63, 926–928 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-019-1615-4

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-019-1615-4

Search

Navigation