Orientation anisotropies in human visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3465-3471

  Mannion, Damien J ^a,b   McDonald, J Scott ^a   Clifford, Colin W G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Vision Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77953490122     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00190.2010     Document Type: Article

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