A new perceptual illusion reveals mechanisms of sensory decoding

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7138, 2007, Pages 912-915

  Jazayeri, Mehrdad ^a   Movshon, J Anthony ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; PERCEPTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MODEL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SENSATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 34247389262     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05739     Document Type: Article

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