Natural vision reveals regional specialization to local motion and to contrast-invariant, global flow in the human brain

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 705-717

  Bartels, A ^a   Zeki, S ^b   Logothetis, N K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast; Heading; LIP; Motion; Natural scenes; Objects; Predictive coding; V5 MT; VIP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BRAIN; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION;

EID: 39349083519     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm107     Document Type: Article

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