“…In humans, the evidence of a neurophysiological oblique effect bias consists of YEP amplitude and latency (Sokol, Moskowitz, & Hansen, 1989;Zemon,Gutowski, & Horton 1983;Maffei & Campbell, 1970;Yoshida, Iwahara, & Nagamura, 1975) as well as fMRI neuroimaging magnitude (Furmanski and Engel, 2000). Since threshold for a particular stimulus pattern is thought to be directly associated with the number of neurons tuned to that pattern (Essock, Krebs, & Prather, 1997;Anzai, Bearse, & Freeman, 1995 ), this numerical anisotropy in the tuning preferences of neurons would explain the presence of the behavioral oblique effect.…”