Optic flow: A brain region devoted to optic flow analysis?
The visual motion - or optic flow - that results from an observer's own movement can indicate the direction of heading through the environment. Recent experiments have strengthened the argument that neurons in a specialized region of the cerebral cortex are critical for the analysis of this important class of visual stimuli.
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Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research National Eye Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-4435, USA.
D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology