Time course of brain activity during change blindness and change awareness: Performance is predicted by neural events before change onset

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2108-2129

  Pourtois, Gilles ^a,b,c   De Pretto, Michael ^a,b   Hauert, Claude Alain ^b   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a,b  

^a Department of Neuroscience and Neurology Clinic ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c University Medical Centre   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845473257     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.2108     Document Type: Article

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