The psychophysics of brain rhythms

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  VanRullen, Rufin ^a,b   Dubois, Julien ^a,b,c  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Discrete perception; Oscillation; Perception; Psychophysics; Sequential attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867060741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00203     Document Type: Article

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