Early extrastriate activity without primary visual cortex in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-28

  Rossion, B ^a,b   De Gelder, B ^b,c   Pourtois, G ^b,c   Guerit J M ^b   Weiskrantz, L ^d  

^a Faculte de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c The   (Netherlands)

^d Dept of Experimental Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindsight; Event related potentials; Extrastriate cortex; Positive occipital deflection; Primary visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BLINDSIGHT; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0033982252     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00926-X     Document Type: Article

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