Predicting Visual Consciousness Electrophysiologically from Intermittent Binocular Rivalry

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  O'Shea, Robert P ^a,b,c   Kornmeier, Jürgen ^d,e   Roeber, Urte ^a,b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; STUDENT; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885053799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076134     Document Type: Article

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