Neural correlates for perception of 3D surface orientation from texture gradient

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5592, 2002, Pages 409-412

  Tsutsui, Ken Ichiro ^a   Sakata, Hideo ^a   Naganuma, Tomoka ^a   Taira, Masato ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR VISION; TEXTURES;

NEURONS;

NEUROLOGY;

IMAGE; VISION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN CORTEX; DEPTH PERCEPTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SIGNAL DETECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FORM PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION DISPARITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037064194     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1074128     Document Type: Article

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30. We thank Solidray Co. for assistance in developing computer programs for 3D graphics presentation. Supported by special coordination funds for promoting science and technology, a grant to promote multidisciplinary research projects, a grant-in-aid for scientific research on priority areas ("Advanced Brain Science Project" 14017085), a grant-in-aid for scientific research (13680903), and a grant-in-aid for JSPS Fellows (199900008) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japanese Government.