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SUBMITTER: Schwarzkopf DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3003902 | biostudies-other | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Schwarzkopf D Samuel DS Silvanto Juha J Gilaie-Dotan Sharon S Rees Geraint G
The European journal of neuroscience 20101014 10
Detecting a change in a visual stimulus is particularly difficult when it is accompanied by a visual disruption such as a saccade or flicker. In order to say whether a stimulus has changed across such a disruption, some neural trace must persist. Here we investigated whether two different regions of the human extrastriate visual cortex contain neuronal populations encoding such a trace. Participants viewed a stimulus that included various objects and a short blank period (flicker) made it diffic ...[more]