EEG-microstate dependent emergence of perceptual awareness

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Britz, Juliane ^a   Hernàndez, Laura Díaz ^a,b   Ro, Tony ^c   Michel, Christoph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha phase; EEG microstates; LAURA inverse solution; Meta contrast masking; Perceptual awareness

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RESPONSE TIME; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84901374387     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00163     Document Type: Article

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