Adaptation to heading direction dissociates the roles of human MST and V6 in the processing of optic flow

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 794-801

  Cardin, Velia ^a   Hemsworth, Lara ^a   Smith, Andrew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Global motion; Self motion; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; EYE POSITION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL AREA V6; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTIC FLOW; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84865659019     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00002.2012     Document Type: Article

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