Gamma flicker triggers attentional selection without awareness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1666-1671

  Bauer, Frank ^a   Cheadle, Samuel W ^b   Parton, Andrew ^c   Müller, Hermann J ^a,b   Usher, Marius ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gamma; Neural synchrony; Psychophysics; Subliminal; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; EVOKED RESPONSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; HUMAN; VISION;

AWARENESS; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 60849116678     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810496106     Document Type: Article

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