Three cortical stages of colour processing in the human brain

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1669-1685

  Zeki, S ^a   Marini, Ludovica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Functional MRI; Hippocampus; Inferior temporal cortex; V4

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR VISION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0031706606     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.9.1669     Document Type: Article

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