The neural basis of temporal individuation and its capacity limits in the human brain

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 499-512

  Naughtin, Claire K ^a   Tamber Rosenau, Benjamin J ^b   Dux, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Consciousness; Individuation; Multivoxel pattern analysis; Repetition blindness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITION BLINDNESS; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL INDIVIDUATION; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; INDIVIDUATION; MULTIVOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; REPETITION BLINDNESS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84893415425     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00534.2013     Document Type: Article

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