Direction-selective motion blindness after unilateral posterior brain damage

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 709-722

  Blanke, Olaf ^a   Landis, Theodor ^a   Mermoud, Christophe ^a   Spinelli, Laurent ^a   Safran, Avinoam B ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain damage; Direction discrimination; Human cortex; Psychophysics; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AKINETOPSIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTION BLINDNESS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STROKE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0042380149     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02771.x     Document Type: Article

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