Grey matter volume in early human visual cortex predicts proneness to the sound-induced flash illusion

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1749, 2012, Pages 4955-4961

  de Haas, Benjamin ^a,b   Kanai, Ryota ^a   Jalkanen, Lauri ^a   Rees, Geraint ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Multisensory; Sound induced flash illusion; Visual cortex; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BRAIN; MORPHOMETRY; PERCEPTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; VOLUME;

EID: 84869122636     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2132     Document Type: Article

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