Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 679-685

  Kamitani, Yukiyasu ^a   Tong, Frank ^b,c  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 17844380475     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1444     Document Type: Article

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