Physiological signal variability in hMT+ reflects performance on a direction discrimination task

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  Wutte, Magdalena G ^a,b   Smith, Michael T ^c   Flanagin, Virginia L ^a,b   Wolbers, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BOLD signal variability; Direction sensitivity; fMRI; hMT+ V5; Inter individual differences; Motion perception; Multi voxel pattern classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867092986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00185     Document Type: Article

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