Neural responses related to point-light walker perception: A magnetoencephalographic study

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2775-2784

  Hirai, Masahiro ^a,b   Kaneoke, Yoshiki ^a,c   Nakata, Hiroki ^a,d   Ryusuke Kakigi, ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Form from motion; Inversion effect; Magnetoencephalography; Motion detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKERS;

EID: 56349130643     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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