Rescuing stimuli from invisibility: Inducing a momentary release from visual masking with pre-target entrainment

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 186-191

  Mathewson, Kyle E ^a   Fabiani, Monica ^a   Gratton, Gabriele ^a   Beck, Diane M ^a   Lleras, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Consciousness; Entrainment; Oscillations; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77249145290     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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