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Early (M170) activation of face-specific cortex by face-like objects

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Precise time estimation is crucial in perception, action and social interaction. Previous neuroimaging studies in humans indicate that perceptual timing tasks involve multiple brain regions; however, whether the representation of time is localized or distr ...

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Excitatory projection neurons of the neocortex are thought to play important roles in perceptual and cognitive functions of the brain by directly connecting diverse cortical and subcortical areas. However, many aspects of the anatomical and functional orga ...

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Self-grounded vision: hand ownership modulates visual location through cortical beta and gamma oscillations

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Disentangling resting-state BOLD variability and PCC functional connectivity in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

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Although often ignored in fMRI studies, moment-to-moment variability of blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signals reveals important information about brain function. Indeed, higher brain signal variability has been associated with better cognitive p ...

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From retinotopic processing to nonretinotopic representation

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Encoding of visual information in the brain is retinotopic: Neighboring points in the visual field are mapped onto neighboring photoreceptors in the retina, and these neighborhood relations are maintained in the early stages of cortical processing. However ...

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