Neural dissociation between visual awareness and spatial attention

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2667-2679

  Wyart, Valentin ^a,b   Tallon Baudry, Catherine ^a,b,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Alpha; Attention; Consciousness; Gamma; Magnetoencephalography; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISSOCIATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 40449102478     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4748-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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