Causal evidence for subliminal percept-to-memory interference in early visual cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 840-845

  Silvanto, Juha ^a   Soto, David ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Subliminal perception; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual cortex; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUBLIMINAL VISUAL DISTRACTER; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80054115908     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.062     Document Type: Article

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