The human homologue of macaque area V6A

NeuroImage

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 517-530

  Pitzalis, S ^a,b   Sereno, M I ^c   Committeri, G ^d   Fattori, P ^e   Galati, G ^b,f   Tosoni, A ^d   Galletti, C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Cortical flattening; Dorsal visual stream; Extrastriate areas; Parieto occipital cortex; Visual topography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CORTICAL SURFACE BASED ANALYSIS; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACACA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL AREA V6A; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WIDE FIELD RETINOTOPIC MAPPING;

BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL FLATTENING; DORSAL VISUAL STREAM; EXTRASTRIATE AREAS; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL CORTEX; VISUAL TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84880005965     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.06.026     Document Type: Article

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