A common neuronal code for perceptual processes in visual cortex? Comparing choice and attentional correlates in V5/MT

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1446, 2004, Pages 929-941

  Krug, Kristine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Extrastriate cortex; Perception; Perceptual decision; V5 MT; Vision

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; VISION;

EID: 2942744691     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1415     Document Type: Review

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