Moving illusory contours activate primary visual cortex: An fMRI study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 663-670

  Seghier, M ^c   Dojat, Michel ^c   Delon Martin, C ^c   Rubin, C ^c   Warnking, J ^c   Segebarth, C ^c   Bullier, J ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^c GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033911083     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/10.7.663     Document Type: Article

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