Sparsely distributed contours dominate extra-striate responses to complex scenes

NeuroImage

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 890-901

  Dumoulin, Serge O ^a   Dakin, Steven C ^b   Hess, Robert F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; fMRI; Natural image; Texture; Vision; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 47949124468     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.04.266     Document Type: Article

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