Anchoring visual subjective experience in a neural model: The coarse vividness hypothesis

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1050-1060

  Campana, Florence ^a   Tallon Baudry, Catherine ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Change blindness; Perceptual consciousness; Scene categorization; Sperling experiment; Subjective experience; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; MENTAL CAPACITY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84876348610     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.02.021     Document Type: Article

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