Can binocular rivalry reveal neural correlates of consciousness?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1641, 2014, Pages

  Blake, Randolph ^a,b   Brascamp, Jan ^c   Heeger, David J ^d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry visual awareness neural correlates of consciousness; Neural dynamics; Perceptual decision making; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BINOCULAR RIVALRY/VISUAL AWARENESS/NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; NEURAL DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

BINOCULAR RIVALRY/VISUAL AWARENESS/NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS; NEURAL DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL DECISION MAKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; VISION DISPARITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896272433     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0211     Document Type: Article

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