Is consciousness a gradual phenomenon? Evidence for an all-or-none bifurcation during the attentional blink

Psychological Science

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 720-728

  Sergent, Claire ^a,b   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a  

^a SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 9344248035     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00748.x     Document Type: Article

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