Early electrophysiological markers of visual awareness in the human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1329-1337

  Ohla, Kathrin ^a,b   Busch, Niko A ^b   Herrmann, Christoph S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conscious perception; EEG; Gamma frequency band activity; Oscillations; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AWARENESS; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548543378     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.06.010     Document Type: Article

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