Opposite dependencies on visual motion coherence in human area MT+ and early visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1542-1549

  Händel, Barbara ^a   Lutzenberger, Werner ^b   Thier, Peter ^a   Haarmeier, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha oscillations; Area MT; Early visual cortex; Magnetoencephalography; Visual motion perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34547665542     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl063     Document Type: Article

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