Variability in visual cortex size reflects tradeoff between local orientation sensitivity and global orientation modulation

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Song, Chen ^a   Schwarzkopf, Dietrich S ^a   Rees, Geraint ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BRAIN; HERITABILITY; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; PERCEPTION; VISION;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MODULATION; NEUROIMAGING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 84881331364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3201     Document Type: Article

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