Competition for consciousness among visual events: The psychophysics of reentrant visual processes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 481-507

  Di Lollo, Vincent ^b   Enns, James T ^b   Rensink, Ronald A ^a  

^a Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VISION;

ADULT; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034547617     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.129.4.481     Document Type: Article

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