Unconscious processing of direct gaze: Evidence from an ERP study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1161-1168

  Yokoyama, Takemasa ^a,b   Noguchi, Yasuki ^a   Kita, Shinichi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conscious awareness; Direct gaze; Event related potentials; Interocular suppression; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877352233     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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