Early Dissociation between Neural Signatures of Endogenous Spatial Attention and Perceptual Awareness during Visual Masking

The relationship between spatial attention and conscious access has often been pictured as a single causal link: spatial attention would provide conscious access to weak stimuli by increasing their effective contrast during early visual processing. To test this hypothesis, we assessed whether the ea...

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Main Authors: Valentin eWyart, Stanislas eDehaene, Catherine eTallon-Baudry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00016/full