Visuo-spatial consciousness and parieto-occipital areas: A high-resolution EEG study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-46

  Babiloni, Claudio ^a,b,c   Vecchio, Fabrizio ^a,c   Miriello, Maurizio ^a   Romani, Gian Luca ^d   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b,c,e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c Osp FBF   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Awareness; Human cortex; LORETA; Subliminal stimuli; Visual evoked potentials (VEPs)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 28544439835     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi082     Document Type: Article

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