How much of the "unconscious" is just pre-threshold?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER, 2011, Pages

  Fahle, Manfred W ^a,b   Stemmler, Torsten ^a   Spang, Karoline M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Conscious visual perception; Decision making; Pupil

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PUPIL; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 84933671577     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00120     Document Type: Article

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