Thomas C Emmerling

Columnar clusters in the human motion complex reflect consciously perceived motion axis.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences March 12, 2019 Marian Schneider, Valentin G Kemper, Thomas C Emmerling et al.

The specific contents of human consciousness rely on the activity of specialized neurons in cerebral cortex. We hypothesized that the conscious experience of a specific visual motion axis is reflected in response amplitudes of direction-selective clusters in the human motion complex. Using submillimeter fMRI at ultrahigh field (7 T) we identified fine-grained clusters that were tuned to either...