Dissociable neural activations of conscious visibility and attention

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 496-506

  Tsubomi, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Ikeda, Takashi ^a,c   Hanakawa, Takashi ^a,d,e   Hirose, Nobuyuki ^a,f   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^a   Osaka, Naoyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VISIBILITY; VISUAL MASKING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84555177782     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00122     Document Type: Article

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