Human brain activity during spontaneously reversing perception of ambiguous figures

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 265, Issue 1413, 1998, Pages 2427-2433

  Kleinschmidt, A ^a   Buchel C ^a   Zeki, S ^a   Frackowiak, R S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bistable percepts; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Human brain; Perceptual rivalry; Visual awareness; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0345003854     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0594     Document Type: Article

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