Population activity in the human dorsal pathway predicts the accuracy of visual motion detection

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 345-359

  Donner, Tobias H ^a,b,d   Siegel, Markus ^a,b   Oostenveld, Robert ^b   Fries, Pascal ^b,c   Bauer, Markus ^b,c   Engel, Andreas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34447554430     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01141.2006     Document Type: Article

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