Exogenous attention can capture perceptual consciousness: ERP and behavioural evidence

NeuroImage

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1205-1212

  Chica, Ana B ^a   Lasaponara, Stefano ^b,e   Lupiáñez, Juan ^c   Doricchi, Fabrizio ^b,e   Bartolomeo, Paolo ^a,d  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^e IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Conscious perception; Event related potentials (ERPs)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77952375579     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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