Activation in visual cortex correlates with the awareness of stereoscopic depth

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 45, 2005, Pages 10403-10413

  Brouwer, Gijs Joosi ^a   Van Ee, Raymond ^a   Schwarzbach, Jens ^b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Depth; Disparity; FMRI; Perspective; Rivalry; Stereopsis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION DISPARITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 27744574586     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2408-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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