Unconscious response priming by shape depends on geniculostriate visual projection

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 623-633

  Koivisto, Mika ^a   Henriksson, Linda ^b   Revonsuo, Antti ^a,c   Railo, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Human brain; Perception; Primary visual cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATERAL OCCIPITAL CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORIENTATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS RESPONSE PRIMING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; GENICULOSTRIATE PATHWAY; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857039205     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07973.x     Document Type: Article

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