Compressive spatial summation in human visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 481-494

  Kay, Kendrick N ^a   Winawer, Jonathan ^a   Mezer, Aviv ^a   Wandell, Brian A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Human visual cortex; Population receptive field; Spatial nonlinearity; Spatial summation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTRAST; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA IMAGE; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84878503264     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00105.2013     Document Type: Article

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