Conscious Awareness of Flicker in Humans Involves Frontal and Parietal Cortex

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 907-911

  Carmel, David ^a,b   Lavie, Nilli ^a,b   Rees, Geraint ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 33646165049     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.03.055     Document Type: Article

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