How Long Depends on How Fast-Perceived Flicker Dilates Subjective Duration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Herbst, Sophie K ^a,b   Javadi, Amir Homayoun ^c   van der Meer, Elke ^a,b   Busch, Niko A ^a,d  

^a Berlin School of Mind and Brain   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84886058709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076074     Document Type: Article

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