Early dissociation between neural signatures of endogenous spatial attention and perceptual awareness during visual masking

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JANUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Wyart, Valentin ^a,b,c   Dehaene, Stanislas ^d,e,f,g   Tallon Baudry, Catherine ^a,b,c,h  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d Unité de Neuroimagerie Cognitive INSERM ^*  (France)

^e DIF   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^g l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^h PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 85083347807     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00016     Document Type: Article

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