Occipital MEG Activity in the Early Time Range (<300 ms) Predicts Graded Changes in Perceptual Consciousness

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2677-2688

  Andersen, Lau M ^a   Pedersen, Michael N ^a   Sandberg, Kristian ^a,b   Overgaard, Morten ^a,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Classification; Consciousness; Magnetoencephalography; Neural correlate of consciousness; Perception

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFABULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY TIME RANGE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAGNETOMETER; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL CONSCIOUSNESS; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME; ADULT; BRAIN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME FACTOR; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84974530681     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv108     Document Type: Article

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