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Nature Neuroscience 3, 535–536 (1 June 2000) | doi:10.1038/75702

An oblique effect in human primary visual cortex

Christopher S. Furmanski & Stephen A. Engel

Visual perception critically depends on orientation-specific signals that arise early in visual processing. Humans show greater behavioral sensitivity to gratings with horizontal or vertical (0|[deg]|/90|[deg]|; |[lsquo]|cardinal|[rsquo]|) orientations than to other, |[lsquo]|oblique|[rsquo]| orientations.