Perceptual rivalry: Reflexes reveal the gradual nature of visual awareness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Naber, Marnix ^a   Frässle, Stefan ^a   Einhäuser, Wolfgang ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MYDRIASIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PUPIL REFLEX; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL REFLEX; BINOCULAR VISION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958045182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020910     Document Type: Article

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