Visual crowding in V1

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3107-3115

  Millin, Rachel ^a   Arman, A Cyrus ^a,c   Chung, Susana T L ^b   Tjan, Bosco S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Deallus Group   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Peripheral vision; Primary visual cortex; Visual crowding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; CROWDING (VISION); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL AREA V3; VISUAL AREA V4; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STUDENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY; VASCULARIZATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

OXYGEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84920855007     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht159     Document Type: Article

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