How ongoing fluctuations in human visual cortex predict perceptual awareness: Baseline shift versus decision bias

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 8715-8725

  Wyart, Valentin ^a,b,c,e   Tallon Baudry, Catherine ^a,b,c,d  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650488138     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0962-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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