A functional and perceptual signature of the second visual area in primates

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 974-981

  Freeman, Jeremy ^a,c   Ziemba, Corey M ^a   Heeger, David J ^a   Simoncelli, Eero P ^a,b   Movshon, J Anthony ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; MACACA; MODULATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; OBSERVATION; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879695640     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3402     Document Type: Article

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