Finding ERP-signatures of target awareness: Puzzle persists because of experimental co-variation of the objective and subjective variables

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 804-808

  Bachmann, Talis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Masking; Neural Corelates; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; RETINA; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 69249085239     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.02.011     Document Type: Note

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