Spatiotemporal dissociation of brain activity underlying subjective awareness, objective performance and confidence

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4382-4395

  Li, Qi ^a   Hill, Zachary ^a   He, Biyu J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conscious perception; MEG; Metacognition; Slow cortical potential; Subjective awareness; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DARK ADAPTATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISSOCIATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

CONSCIOUS PERCEPTION; MEG; METACOGNITION; SLOW CORTICAL POTENTIAL; SUBJECTIVE AWARENESS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896305929     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1820-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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