Contextual illusions reveal the limit of unconscious visual processing

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 399-405

  Harris, Julia J ^a,b   Schwarzkopf, D Samuel ^a,b   Song, Chen ^a   Bahrami, Bahador ^a   Rees, Geraint ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cognitive neuroscience; consciousness; visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION, MONOCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954520076     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611399293     Document Type: Article

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