Ventral extra-striate cortical areas are required for human visual texture segmentation.
A patient (HJA) with bilateral occipital lobe damage to ventral cortical areas V2, V3 and V4 was tested on a texture segmentation task involving texture bar detection in an array of oriented lines. Performance detecting a target shape was assessed as the orientations of the background lines had incr...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2009
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