Area summation in human visual system: Psychophysics, fMRI, and modeling

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2900-2909

  Nurminen, Lauri ^a,b   Kilpeläinen, Markku ^b   Laurinen, Pentti ^b   Vanni, Simo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; OXYGEN; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449436199     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00201.2009     Document Type: Article

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