What geometric visual hallucinations tell us about the visual cortex

Neural Computation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 473-489

  Bressloff, Paul C ^a   Cowan, Jack D ^b   Golubitsky, Martin ^c   Thomas, Peter J ^d   Wiener, Matthew C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0038892051     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976602317250861     Document Type: Article

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