The function of consciousness in multisensory integration

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 353-364

  Palmer, Terry D ^a   Ramsey, Ashley K ^a  

^a TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Multisensory integration; Perceptual learning; Unconscious cross modal attention guidance; Unconscious cueing; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOUND; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CUES; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84867397258     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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