Motion processing, directional selectivity, and conscious visual perception in the human brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 42, 2008, Pages 16362-16367

  Moutoussis, Konstantinos ^a   Zeki, Semir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area V5; Consciousness; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SUBPOPULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 55849093633     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802867105     Document Type: Article

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