Now you'll feel it, now you won't: EEG rhythms predict the effectiveness of perceptual masking

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2407-2419

  Schubert, Ruth ^a   Haufe, Stefan ^b,c   Blankenburg, Felix ^d   Villringer, Arno ^a,e   Curio, Gabriel ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER FIRST   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; MU RHYTHM; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION;

ADULT; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350444720     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21174     Document Type: Article

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