The flexible nature of unconscious cognition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Wokke, Martijn E ^a   van Gaal, Simon ^a,b,c   Scholte, H Steven ^a   Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Inserm Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCONSCIOUS COGNITION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSICS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053285214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025729     Document Type: Article

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