Sensitivity of human visual cortical areas to the stereoscopic depth of a moving stimulus

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Smith, Andrew T ^a   Wall, Matthew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; fMRI; MST; MT; Stereoscopic depth

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION DISPARITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 48649109896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.10.1     Document Type: Article

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