Responses in early visual areas to contour integration are context dependent

@article{Qiu2016ResponsesIE,
  title={Responses in early visual areas to contour integration are context dependent},
  author={Cheng Qiu and Philip C. Burton and Daniel J. Kersten and Cheryl A. Olman},
  journal={Journal of Vision},
  year={2016},
  volume={16}
}
It has been shown that early visual areas are involved in contour processing. However, it is not clear how local and global context interact to influence responses in those areas, nor has the interarea coordination that yields coherent structural percepts been fully studied, especially in human observers. In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure activity in early visual cortex while observers performed a contour detection task in which alignment of Gabor… 
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