Neural activity within area V1 reflects unconscious visual performance in a case of blindsight

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1927-1939

  Radoeva, Petya D ^a   Prasad, Sashank ^a   Brainard, David H ^a   Aguirre, Geoffrey K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; STRIATE CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADOLESCENT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFARCTION, ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 55949100795     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20139     Document Type: Article

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