fMRI reveals a common neural substrate of illusory and real contours in V1 after perceptual learning

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1553-1564

  Maertens, Marianne ^a   Pollmann, Stefan ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; TRAINING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27144542071     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892905774597209     Document Type: Article

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