Neuronal correlates of real and illusory contour perception: Functional anatomy with PET

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 4024-4036

  Larsson, Jonas ^a   Amunts, Katrin ^b   Gulyás, Balázs ^a   Malikovic, Aleksandar ^b   Zilles, Karl ^b   Roland, Per E ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extrastriate; Form perception; Neuroimaging; Vision; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MALE; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032700844     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00805.x     Document Type: Article

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