Top-down modulations in the visual form pathway revealed with dynamic causal modeling

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 550-562

  Cardin, Velia ^a   Friston, Karl J ^b   Zeki, Semir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DCM; fMRI; form; visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951826135     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq122     Document Type: Article

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