Closing the mind's eye: Incoming luminance signals disrupt visual imagery

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Sherwood, Rachel ^a   Pearson, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; SENSORY MEMORY; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; ATTENTION; BRAIN; IMAGINATION; MEMORY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650860704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015217     Document Type: Article

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