Unconscious neural processing differs with method used to render stimuli invisible

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Fogelson, Sergey V ^a   Kohler, Peter J ^b   Miller, Kevin J ^c   Granger, Richard ^a   Tse, Peter U ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical representation; Consciousness; Continuous flash induced suppression; Flicker fusion; Fmri; Multi voxel pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904568338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00601     Document Type: Article

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