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Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Motion-Induced Blindness

Camilo Libedinsky¹, Tristram Savage¹, & Margaret Livingstone¹

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1. Harvard Medical School, Neurobiology

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Received 09 January 2008 19:37 UTC; Posted 09 January 2008

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• motion-induced blindness
• visual perception
• V1
• physiology
• psychophysics

Abstract:

Visual disappearance illusions – such as motion-induced blindness (MIB) – are commonly used to study the neural underpinnings of visual perception. In such illusions a salient visual target becomes perceptually invisible. Previous studies are inconsistent regarding the role of primary visual cortex (V1) in these illusions. Here we provide physiological and psychophysical evidence supporting a role for V1 in generating MIB.

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Camilo Libedinsky on 09 January 2008 22:23 UTC

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Libedinsky, Camilo, Savage, Tristram, and Livingstone, Margaret. Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Motion-Induced Blindness. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.1506.1> (2008)

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