Speed encoding in human visual cortex revealed by fMRI adaptation

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Lingnau, Angelika ^a,b   Ashida, Hiroshi ^a,c   Wall, Matthew B ^a   Smith, Andrew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast; hMT; Rapid fMRI adaptation; Speed encoding; V1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77950355872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.13.1     Document Type: Article

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