Processing of coherent visual motion in topographically organized visual areas in human cerebral cortex

Brain Topography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 247-263

  Helfrich, Randolph F ^a,b   Becker, Hubertus G T ^b   Haarmeier, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Hemispheric asymmetries; Intraparietal sulcus; MST; V6; Visual motion processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL AREA V6; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880700350     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-012-0226-1     Document Type: Article

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