The role of feedback in visual masking and visual processing

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 125-152

  MacKnik, Stephen ^a   Martinez Conde, Susana ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Awareness; Consciousness; Electrophysiology; Feedback; FMRI; Humans; Masking; Metacontrast; Monkeys; Optical imaging; Paracontrast; Psychophysics; Standing wave; Vision; Visual

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949087344     PISSN: 18951171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10053-008-0020-5     Document Type: Article

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