Reversal negativity and bistable stimuli: Attention, awareness, or something else?

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-34

  Intaite, Monika ^b   Koivisto, Mika ^a   Rukšenas, Osvaldas ^b   Revonsuo, Antti ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ambiguous figures; Event related potentials; N2pc; Necker cube; Reversal negativity; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955279419     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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