Unconscious attention manifested in non-averaged human brain potentials by optional short-latency cognitive electrogeneses without subsequent P300

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 263, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 181-184

  Tomberg, Claude ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Human cognitive brain potentials; Non averaged brain responses; P300 event related potentials; Perceptual processing; Unconscious attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0033605604     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00141-X     Document Type: Article

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