Optimum stimulus size for the human brain to respond to motion: A magnetoencephalographic study

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1238-1245

  Urakawa, Tomokazu ^a,b   Kaneoke, Yoshiki ^a,b   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Counterphase grating; Flicker; Latency; Sinusoidal grating; Speed; Wide field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 79956357288     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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