BOLD Signal in Both Ipsilateral and Contralateral Retinotopic Cortex Modulates with Perceptual Fading

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 5; no. 3; p. e9638
• Main Authors: Hsieh, Po-Jang, Tse, Peter U.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 11.03.2010; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Consciousness; Continuous casting; Eye Movements; Fading; Female; Fixation, Ocular; Humans; Hypotheses; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Neuroscience/Behavioral Neuroscience; Neuroscience/Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroscience/Psychology; Neurosciences; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Oxygen; Oxygen - blood; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Photic Stimulation; Physiology; Quadrants; Retina; Retina - physiology; Signal processing; Visual cortex; Visual Cortex - anatomy & histology; Visual Cortex - physiology; Visual effects; Visual field; Visual Fields; Visual Perception; Visual stimuli; Visual task performance; United States > US; New Hampshire

Under conditions of visual fixation, perceptual fading occurs when a stationary object, though present in the world and continually casting light upon the retina, vanishes from visual consciousness. The neural correlates of the consciousness of such an object will presumably modulate in activity wit...