Early correlates of visual awareness following orientation and colour rivalry

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 2359-2369

  Veser, Sandra ^a   O'Shea, Robert P ^b   Schröger, Erich ^a   Trujillo Barreto, Nelson J ^c   Roeber, Urte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CUBAN NEUROSCIENCE CENTER   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Binocular fusion; Binocular rivalry; Colour rivalry; Event related brain potentials (ERPs); Orientation rivalry; Variable Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (VARETA); Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BINOCULAR VISION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 52949144153     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.024     Document Type: Article

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