Stronger occipital cortical activation to lower than upper visual field stimuli. Neuromagnetic recordings

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 287-294

  Portin, Karin ^a   Vanni, Simo ^a   Virsu, Veijo ^b   Hari, Riitta ^a,c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Horizontal meridian; Human; Magnetoencephalography; V1 cortex; V2 cortex; V6 complex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0033031310     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050625     Document Type: Article

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