Colour tuning in human visual cortex measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6637, 1997, Pages 68-71

  Engel, Stephen ^a,b   Zhang, Xuemei ^a   Wandell, Brian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; HUMAN; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0030744384     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40398     Document Type: Article

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