Early visual brain areas reflect the percept of an ambiguous scene

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

Volumn 105, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 20500-20504

  Parkkonen, Lauri ^a   Andersson, Jesper ^a,b   Hämäläinen, Matti ^c,d   Hari, Riitta ^a,e  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bistable perception; Frequency tagging; Human; Magnetoencephalography; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MODULATION; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149484834     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810966105     Document Type: Article

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