Evidence of a direct influence between the thalamus and hMT+ independent of V1 in the human brain as measured by fMRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1440-1447

  Gaglianese, Anna ^a   Costagli, Mauro ^b,c   Bernardi, Giulio ^a   Ricciardi, Emiliano ^a,d   Pietrini, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Fondazione IMAGO7   (Italy)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d FONDAZIONE TOSCANA GABRIELE MONASTERIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conditional Granger Causality; Connectivity; FMRI; HMT+; Phase delay; Thalamus; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84857006059     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.093     Document Type: Article

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