Acting without seeing: Eye movements reveal visual processing without awareness

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 247-258

  Spering, Miriam ^a   Carrasco, Marisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Eye movements; Perception action dissociation; Visual pathways; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AWARENESS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84926119585     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2015.02.002     Document Type: Review

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