Activity in visual area V4 correlates with surface perception

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Bouvier, Seth E ^a   Cardinal, Kristen S ^b   Engel, Stephen A ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Image segmentation; Image statistics; Psychophysics; Surface perception; V1; V4

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 58149528240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.7.28     Document Type: Article

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