Blindsight: The role of feedforward and feedback corticocortical connections

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 107, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 209-228

  Lamme, Victor A F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blindsight; Consciousness; Feedback connections; Feedforward; Lesions; Visual awareness; Visual cortex; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAGNETISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; NERVE NET; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035321216     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-6918(01)00020-8     Document Type: Article

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