Neural correlates of disparity-defined shape discrimination in the human brain

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1553-1565

  Chandrasekaran, Chandramouli ^a   Canon, Victor ^b   Dahmen, Johannes C ^c   Kourtzi, Zoe ^d   Welchman, Andrew E ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA IMAGE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33846898936     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01074.2006     Document Type: Article

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