The Coding of Color, Motion, and Their Conjunction in the Human Visual Cortex

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 177-183

  Seymour, Kiley ^a   Clifford, Colin W G ^a   Logothetis, Nikos K ^b,c   Bartels, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 59349103232     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.050     Document Type: Article

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