Neuroimaging: perception at the brain's core.
Two new functional imaging studies have shown that activity in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus strongly reflects perceptual dominance during binocular rivalry, raising new questions about how subjective percepts arise in the brain.
Leopold
David A
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Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
Maier
Alexander
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D023882:Dominance, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000379:methods; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008954:Models, Biological; D015348:Vision, Binocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*