A model of encoding and decoding in V1 and MT accounts for motion perception anisotropies in the human visual system

Brain Research

Volumn 1299, Issue , 2009, Pages 3-16

  Rokem, Ariel ^a   Silver, Michael A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Computational cognitive neuroscience; Computational model; Motion aftereffect; Motion perception; Neural coding; Psychophysics; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; MOTION; NERVE CELL; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 70449707786     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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