Backward masking suppresses collinear facilitation in the visual cortex

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1784-1794

  Sterkin, Anna ^a   Yehezkel, Oren ^a   Bonneh, Yoram S ^b   Norcia, Antony ^c   Polat, Uri ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward masking; Extrastriate cortex; Facilitation; Lateral interactions; Lateral masking; Striate cortex; Suppression; VEP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 67349206136     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.04.013     Document Type: Article

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