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SUBMITTER: Sasaki Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC549500 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sasaki Yuka Y Vanduffel Wim W Knutsen Tamara T Tyler Christopher C Tootell Roger R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050214 8
Humans often create and appreciate visual symmetry in their environment, and the underlying brain mechanisms have been a topic of increasing interest. Here, symmetric versus random dot stimuli produced robust functional MRI (fMRI) activity in higher-order regions of human visual cortex (especially areas V3A, V4, V7, and LO) but little activity elsewhere in brain. This fMRI response was found both with and without attention controls. Moreover, it was highly correlated with the psychophysical perc ...[more]