Predictive feedback and conscious visual experience

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Panichello, Matthew F ^a   Cheung, Olivia S ^a   Bar, Moshe ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Associative processing; Context; Object recognition; Perception; Predictions; Priming; Top down; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874686012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00620     Document Type: Review

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