Dissociable brain mechanisms underlying the conscious and unconscious control of behavior

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-105

  Van Gaal, Simon ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^a   Fahrenfort, Johannes J ^a   Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 78649464250     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21431     Document Type: Article

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