Submissions tagged with visual cortex
(3 documents)
Seeing the invisible: The scope and limits of unconscious processing in binocular rivalry
When an image is presented to one eye and a very different image is presented to the corresponding location of the other eye, they compete for conscious representation, such that only one image is ...
Received 29 August 2008 16:53 GMT; Posted 02 September 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Seeing faces: evidence suggesting cortical disinhibition in the genesis of visual hallucinations.
The neural mechanisms responsible for triggering visual hallucinations are poorly understood. Here, we report a unique patient whose hallucinations consist exclusively of faces, and which could be ...
Received 22 April 2008 19:48 GMT; Posted 22 April 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Posterior parietal cortex controls spatial attention through modulation of anticipatory alpha rhythms
A dorsal fronto-parietal network, including regions in intra-parietal sulcus (IPS) and frontal eye field (FEF), has been hypothesized to control the allocation of spatial attention to environmental...
Received 01 February 2008 13:23 GMT; Posted 01 February 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience