Sandwich masking eliminates both visual awareness of faces and face-specific brain activity through a feedforward mechanism

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Harris, Joseph A ^a   Wu, Chien Te ^b   Woldorff, Marty G ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Masking; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN; COLOR VISION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; BRAIN; COLOR PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054011732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.7.1     Document Type: Article

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