The neural substrates associated with inattentional blindness

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1768-1775

  Thakral, Preston P ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Conscious; FMRI; Perception; Prefrontal; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CEREBELLUM; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIVIDED ATTENTION; FULL ATTENTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 80054848546     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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