Sustained invisibility through crowding and continuous flash suppression: A comparative review

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Faivre, Nathan ^a,b   Berthet, Vincent ^c   Kouider, Sid ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Awareness; Consciousness; Continuous flash suppression; Unconscious processing; Visual crowding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904470439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00475     Document Type: Review

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