Alerting and orienting of attention without visual awareness

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 928-938

  Lu, Shena ^a   Cai, Yongchun ^a   Shen, Mowei ^a   Zhou, Ying ^a   Han, Shihui ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alerting; Awareness; Chromatic flicker; Orienting; The attentional network

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CUES; FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860515914     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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