Primary visual cortex: Awareness and blindsight

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue , 2012, Pages 91-109

  Leopold, David A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

blindsight; cerebral cortex; consciousness; cortical lesion; thalamus; V1; visual perception

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II;

BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GANGLION; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; REVIEW; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84862642787     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-062111-150356     Document Type: Review

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