title: Attention, adaptation, and the motion aftereffect.
abstract: Activation of the human visual motion area V5/MT was previously thought to be the basis of the motion aftereffect. New findings suggest that previous observations were confounded by attention and arousal, providing evidence that adaptation of directionally selective neurons in area V5/MT represents the fundamental substrate for the motion aftereffect.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rees
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*