Masked Priming of Conceptual Features Reveals Differential Brain Activation during Unconscious Access to Conceptual Action and Sound Information

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Trumpp, Natalie M ^a   Traub, Felix ^a   Kiefer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MASKED PRIMING; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOUND; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878584087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065910     Document Type: Article

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