Predicting the orientation of invisible stimuli from activity in human primary visual cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 686-691

  Haynes, John Dylan ^a,b   Rees, Geraint ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 17844361888     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1445     Document Type: Article

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