By demonstrating that fMRI responses in human MT+ increase linearly with motion coherence and comparing these responses with slopes of single-neuron firing rates in monkey MT, a new paper provides the best evidence so far that fMRI responses are proportional to firing rates.
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David Heeger and Alex Huk are at the Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. heeger@stanford.edu
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Wilson Geisler and Duane Albrecht are at the Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
- Wilson S. Geisler
- & Duane G. Albrecht
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