Attention and conscious perception in the hypothesis testing brain

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Hohwy, Jakob ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Change blindness; Free energy; Inattentional blindness; Precision expectation; Prediction error minimization; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867123314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00096     Document Type: Article

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