Neural coding of global form in the human visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2456-2469

  Ostwald, Dirk ^a   Lam, Judith M ^b   Li, Sheng ^a   Kourtzi, Zoe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47549115834     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01307.2007     Document Type: Article

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