Brain dynamics underlying the nonlinear threshold for access to consciousness

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2408-2423

  Del Cul, Antoine ^a,b,c   Baillet, Sylvain ^d,e   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b,c,f  

^a IFR 49 ^*  (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35648934012     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050260     Document Type: Article

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