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SUBMITTER: Ahmed B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2583157 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahmed Bashir B Hanazawa Akitoshi A Undeman Calle C Eriksson David D Valentiniene Sonata S Roland Per E PE
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20080328 12
Motion can be perceived when static images are successively presented with a spatial shift. This type of motion is an illusion and is termed apparent motion (AM). Here we show, with a voltage sensitive dye applied to the visual cortex of the ferret, that presentation of a sequence of stationary, short duration, stimuli which are perceived to produce AM are, initially, mapped in areas 17 and 18 as separate stationary representations. But time locked to the offset of the 1st stimulus, a sequence o ...[more]