Communications Biology (Mar 2022)

The human primary visual cortex (V1) encodes the perceived position of static but not moving objects

  • Man-Ling Ho,
  • D. Samuel Schwarzkopf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03136-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Neural responses in the human primary visual cortex (V1) are shown here to be consistent with perception of the Muller-Lyer illusion but not for the curveball effect, demonstrating that V1 does not encode apparent position per se.