Unconscious cueing via the superior Colliculi: Evidence from searching for onset and color targets

Brain Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-60

  Fuchs, Isabella ^a   Ansorge, Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Color; Subliminal; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISIBILITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84977803922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci2010033     Document Type: Article

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