Toward unmasking the dynamics of visual perception.
Fisch et al. report in this issue of Neuron the results of an investigation of the neural correlates of conscious perception. They find an early, dramatic, and long-lasting gamma response in high-level visual areas, when (and only when) a rapidly presented image is perceived.
Singer
Jedediah
J
Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Kreiman
Gabriel
G
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