Isolating neural correlates of conscious perception from neural correlates of reporting one's perception

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Pitts, Michael A ^a   Metzler, Stephen ^a   Hillyard, Steven A ^b  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Awareness; Masking; P3b; Task relevance; VAN

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907171134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01078     Document Type: Article

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