Neuronal correlates of perception in early visual cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 414-420

  Ress, David ^a   Heeger, David J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037382555     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1024     Document Type: Article

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