Dichoptic visual masking reveals that early binocular neurons exhibit weak interocular suppression: Implications for binocular vision and visual awareness

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1049-1059

  Macknik, Stephen L ^a   Martinez Conde, Susana ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN CORTEX; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AWARENESS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENICULATE BODIES; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; NEURONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3242878659     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929041502788     Document Type: Article

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