Differential BOLD activity associated with subjective and objective reports during "blindsight" in normal observers

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 36, 2011, Pages 12936-12944

  Hesselmann, Guido ^a   Hebart, Martin ^b,c   Malach, Rafael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c Berlin School of Mind and Brain   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINA; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052571346     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1556-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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