A comparison of masking by visual and transcranial magnetic stimulation: Implications for the study of conscious and unconscious visual processing

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 829-843

  Breitmeyer, Bruno G ^a   Ro, Tony ^b   Ogmen, Haluk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conscious and unconscious vision; Double dissociation; Target recovery; Target suppression; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASK; PERCEPTION; RETINA IMAGE; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISIBILITY; VISION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 7444236034     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2004.08.007     Document Type: Article

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