Attention, automaticity, and awareness in synesthesia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1156, Issue , 2009, Pages 141-167

  Mattingley, Jason B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD); Color perception; Event related potential (ERP); Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Grapheme; Masking; Stroop effect; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); V4; Visual imagery; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COLOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SYNESTHESIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION;

EID: 63449106747     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04422.x     Document Type: Article

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