Dynamics of normalization underlying masking in human visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2783-2789

  Tsai, Jeffrey J ^a,b   Wade, Alex R ^a,b,c   Norcia, Anthony M ^d  

^a SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMALIZATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84857346323     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4485-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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