fMRI and its interpretations: an illustration on directional selectivity in area V5/MT

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 444-453

  Bartels, Andreas ^a   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,b   Moutoussis, Konstantinos ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CEREBELLUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION PERCEPTION; OXYGEN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 50249094402     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2008.06.004     Document Type: Review

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