Visual awareness: the eye fields have it?
Whether a stimulus is perceived is suggested to depend on the amount or strength of the sensory signal. This idea has received support from a recent study which found that, when neural activation in the frontal eye fields was boosted by magnetic stimulation, the observers' detection performance on a visual task improved.
O'Shea
Jacinta
J
Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, USA. jacinta.oshea@psy.ox.ac.uk
Walsh
Vincent
V
D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008280:Magnetics; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*