Brain-stimulation induced blindsight: Unconscious vision or response bias?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Lloyd, David A ^a   Abrahamyan, Arman ^a   Harris, Justin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLINDSIGHT; COGNITIVE BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSE BIAS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891946378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082828     Document Type: Article

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