Boosting up gamma-band oscillations leaves target-stimulus in masking out of awareness: Explaining an apparent paradox

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 450, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 351-355

  Aru, Jaan ^a   Bachmann, Talis ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Consciousness; EEG; Gamma oscillations; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AWARENESS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149459579     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.11.063     Document Type: Article

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