A cortical locus for anisotropic overlay suppression of stimuli presented at fixation

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hansen, Bruce C ^a   Richard, Bruno ^b   Andres, Kristin ^a   Johnson, Aaron P ^b   Thompson, Benjamin ^c,d   Essock, Edward A ^e  

^a Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband noise; Contrast sensitivity; Horizontal effect; Overlay suppression; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MASKING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRODE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE STIMULATOR; NORMAL HUMAN; OVERLAY SUPPRESSION ANISOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; SUBCORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84973409687     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523815000255     Document Type: Article

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