The flickering wheel illusion: When α rhythms make a static wheel flicker

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 33, 2013, Pages 13498-13504

  Sokoliuk, Rodika ^a,b   VanRullen, Rufin ^a,b  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84881520064     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5647-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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