Common-onset visual masking in infancy: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 966-973

  Kotsoni, Eleni ^a   Mareschal, Denis ^a,b   Csibra, Gergely ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33745971040     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.6.966     Document Type: Article

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