Orientation decoding depends on maps, not columns

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4792-4804

  Freeman, Jeremy ^a   Brouwer, Gijs Joost ^a   Heeger, David J ^a   Merriam, Elisha P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION DECODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955737563     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5160-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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