Collinear stimuli induce local and cross-areal coherence in the visual cortex of behaving monkeys.

BACKGROUND: Collinear patterns of local visual stimuli are used to study contextual effects in the visual system. Previous studies have shown that proximal collinear flankers, unlike orthogonal, can enhance the detection of a low contrast central element. However, the direct neural interactions betw...

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Main Authors: Ariel Gilad, Elhanan Meirovithz, Amir Leshem, Amos Arieli, Hamutal Slovin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3501522?pdf=render