Awareness-related activity in prefrontal and parietal cortices in blindsight reflects more than superior visual performance

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 605-611

  Persaud, Navindra ^a   Davidson, Matthew ^b   Maniscalco, Brian ^b   Mobbs, Dean ^c,d   Passingham, Richard E ^c,e   Cowey, Alan ^c,e   Lau, Hakwan ^b,c,e,f  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blindsight; Consciousness; Metacognition; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHILD; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AWARENESS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 80051782721     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.081     Document Type: Article

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