Direct evidence for encoding of motion streaks in human visual cortex

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1752, 2013, Pages

  Apthorp, Deborah ^a   Samuel Schwarzkopf, D ^b,c   Kaul, Christian ^b,c   Bahrami, Bahador ^b,c,d,e   Alais, David ^f   Rees, Geraint ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Motion; Motion streaks; Multi voxel pattern analysis; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MOVEMENT; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL CUE;

EID: 84870777572     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2339     Document Type: Article

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