BOLD fMRI and psychophysical measurements of contrast response to broadband images

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 669-683

  Olman, Cheryl A ^a   Ugurbil, Kamil ^a   Schrater, Paul ^b   Kersten, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional brain imaging; Models and theory; Natural images; Psychophysics; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HUMAN; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 1642534477     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.10.022     Document Type: Article

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