Single units and conscious vision

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1377, 1998, Pages 1801-1818

  Logothetis, Nikos K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Monkey physiology; Monkey psychophysics; Multistable perception; Visual awareness; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HAPLORHINI; STEREOPSIS;

EID: 0032578949     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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