Seeing the invisible: The scope and limits of unconscious processing in binocular rivalry

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 195-211

  Lin, Zhicheng ^a   He, Sheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Aftereffect; Afterimage; Amygdala; Attention; Awareness; Binocular rivalry; Consciousness; Continuous flash suppression; Cortical pathways; Dorsal pathway; Emotion; Magnocellular channel; Parvocellular channel; Priming; Subcortical pathways; V1; Ventral pathway; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

AFTERIMAGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AWARENESS; BINOCULAR VISION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 62949089681     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2008.09.002     Document Type: Review

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