Precise discrimination of object position in the human pulvinar

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-111

  Fischer, Jason ^a   Whitney, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; LGN; Localization; Perception; Retinotopy; Topography; V2; VI; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TOPOGRAPHY; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PULVINAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 58149340252     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20485     Document Type: Article

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