Representation of stereoscopic structure in human and monkey cortex.
Tsao et al. have recently used functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare processing for moving stereoscopic forms in macaque and human brains. Most humans exhibited activation in a swath of lateral occipital areas, extending into the intraparietal sulcus, with a limited version of the same pattern in monkeys. However, neither species showed strong activation of the motion area known as MT in monkey or its human homolog.
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Christopher W
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Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA. cwt@ski.org
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