Pupillometry: A window to the preconscious?

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-27

  Laeng, Bruno ^a   Sirois, Sylvain ^b   Gredebäck, Gustaf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

attention; consciousness; development; infant; methodology; neuroscience; unconscious automatic processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855409952     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691611427305     Document Type: Article

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