Believing is seeing: expectations alter visual awareness

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Sterzer, Philipp ^a,b   Frith, Chris ^a,c   Petrovic, Predrag ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; HUMAN; LETTER; ROTATION; VISION;

AWARENESS; HUMANS; ROTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 49649125553     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.021     Document Type: Letter

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