Brain areas selective for both observed and executed movements

I Dinstein, U Hasson, N Rubin… - Journal of …, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
When observing a particular movement a subset of movement-selective visual and
visuomotor neurons are active in the observer's brain, forming a representation of the …

Orientation-tuned fMRI adaptation in human visual cortex

F Fang, SO Murray, D Kersten… - Journal of …, 2005 - journals.physiology.org
Adaptation is a general property of almost all neural systems and has been a longstanding
tool of psychophysics because of its power to isolate and temporarily reduce the contribution …

FMRI adaptation reveals separate mechanisms for first-order and second-order motion

H Ashida, A Lingnau, MB Wall… - Journal of …, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
A key unresolved debate in human vision concerns whether we have two different low-level
mechanisms for encoding image motion. Separate neural mechanisms have been …

Spatial frequency-specific contrast adaptation originates in the primary visual cortex

T Duong, RD Freeman - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
Adaptation to a high-contrast grating stimulus causes reduced sensitivity to subsequent
presentation of a visual stimulus with similar spatial characteristics. This behavioral finding …

Textures of Natural Images in the Human Brain. Focus on “Orientation-Selective Adaptation to First- and Second-Order Patterns in Human Visual Cortex”

Z Kourtzi - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2006 - journals.physiology.org
Texture patterns—homogeneous regions of repeated structures—are the predominant
feature of natural visual scenes. The zebra, a 1938 optical art painting by Victor Vasarely …