Functional hierarchies of nonconscious visual processing

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1509-1513

  Breitmeyer, Bruno G ^a   Koç, Alpay ^a   Öǧmen, Haluk ^a   Ziegler, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Levels of processing; Metacontrast; Nonconscious processing; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISIBILITY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 44949124402     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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