Toward a common circle: Interhemispheric contextual modulation in human early visual areas

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 8804-8809

  Ban, Hiroshi ^a,b   Yamamoto, Hiroki ^a   Fukunaga, Masaki ^c,d   Nakagoshi, Asuka ^d   Umeda, Masahiro ^d   Tanaka, Chuzo ^d   Ejima, Yoshimichi ^e  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contextual modulation; fMRI; Interhemispheric integration; Object shape perception; Retinotopy; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; MODULATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROSCIENCE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748268685     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1765-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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