Activity in the lateral occipital cortex between 200 and 300 ms distinguishes between physically identical seen and unseen stimuli

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Ying ^a   Paradis, Anne Lise ^b,c   Yahia Cherif, Lydia ^b   Tallon Baudry, Catherine ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Awareness; Feature binding; Feature selection; LO; MEG; Parietal; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN REGION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL OCCIPITAL CORTEX; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933674795     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00211     Document Type: Article

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