On the role of attention in binocular rivalry: Electrophysiological evidence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Roeber, Urte ^a,b,c   Veser, Sandra ^a,d   Schröger, Erich ^a   O'Shea, Robert P ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; RETINA RIVALRY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; EVOKED RESPONSE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, BINOCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960687310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022612     Document Type: Article

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