Do different 'magnocellular tasks' probe the same neural substrate?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1745, 2012, Pages 4263-4271

  Goodbourn, Patrick T ^a   Bosten, Jenny M ^a   Hogg, Ruth E ^a,b   Bargary, Gary ^a,c   Lawrance Owen, Adam J ^a   Mollon, J D ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dorsal stream; Hearing; Individual differences; Magnocellular; Psychophysics; Vision

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEARING; NEUROLOGY; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISION;

EID: 84866110780     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1430     Document Type: Article

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