Role of primary visual cortex in the binocular integration of plaid motion perception

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1107-1115

  Saint Amour, Dave ^a   Walsh, Vincent ^b   Guillemot, Jean Paul ^a,c   Lassonde, Maryse ^a   Lepore, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Binocular vision; Motion perception; Plaid perception; Primary visual cortex; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 16244402991     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.03914.x     Document Type: Article

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