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SUBMITTER: Crespi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3131281 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20110707 7
The neural substrate of the phenomenological experience of a stable visual world remains obscure. One possible mechanism would be to construct spatiotopic neural maps where the response is selective to the position of the stimulus in external space, rather than to retinal eccentricities, but evidence for these maps has been inconsistent. Here we show, with fMRI, that when human subjects perform concomitantly a demanding attentive task on stimuli displayed at the fovea, BOLD responses evoked by m ...[more]