Artificial scotoma-induced perceptual distortions are orientation dependent and short lived

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-87

  Tailby, Chris ^a   Metha, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial scotoma; Contextual influences; Cortical plasticity; Psychophysics; Receptive field expansion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; SCOTOMA; SPACE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME;

HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SCOTOMA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2442673201     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523804041082     Document Type: Article

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