Perceptual filling-in at the scotoma following a monocular retinal lesion in the monkey

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-101

  Murakami, Ikuya ^a   Komatsu, Hidehiko ^a,b   Kinoshita, Masaharu ^a  

^a ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Macaque monkey; Perceptual filling in; Primary visual cortex; Retinal lesions; Scotoma

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030761224     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800008798     Document Type: Article

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