Asynchrony in visual consciousness and the possible involvement of attention

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Moutoussis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attention; Color; Consciousness; Functional specialization; Motion; Perception; Perceptual asynchrony; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867084210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00314     Document Type: Review

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