Selective visual responses to expansion and rotation in the human MT complex revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging adaptation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2747-2757

  Wall, Matthew B ^a   Lingnau, Angelika ^a,b   Ashida, Hiroshi ^c   Smith, Andrew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Middle superior temporal; Middle temporal; Optic flow; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44649197772     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06249.x     Document Type: Article

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