fMRI reveals that non-local processing in ventral retinotopic cortex underlies perceptual grouping by temporal synchrony

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 651-661

  Caplovitz, Gideon P ^a   Barroso, Diego J ^a   Hsieh, Po Jang ^a   Tse, Peter U ^a  

^a Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback; fMRI; Form; Retinotopic cortex; Top down processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; EYE FIXATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOTOPIC CORTEX; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 44849126828     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20429     Document Type: Article

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