Visual awareness of low-contrast stimuli is reflected in event-related brain potentials

Psychophysiology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 192-197

  Ojanen, Ville ^a   Revonsuo, Antti ^b   Sams, Mikko ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

ERP; Explicit processing; Neural correlates of visual awareness; Perceptual threshold; Processing speed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 12244307465     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8986.00021     Document Type: Article

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