Gain control in the response of human visual cortex to plaids

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2570-2580

  Mcdonald, J Scott ^a   Mannion, Damien J ^b   Clifford, Colin W G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contrast; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Spatial; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTRAST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84860535482     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00616.2011     Document Type: Article

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