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Alpha-frequency of Electroencephalogram and a Stabilized Retinal Image

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IT is known that the alpha rhythm is suppressed, in most subjects when patterned targets are viewed in normal vision1. It is now also well known2–4 that when a pattern is viewed as a stabilized retinal image, perception of it in whole or in part may be lost intermittently. It is evidently of interest to discover what modification, if any, of the alpha component of the human electroencephalogram occurs when a stabilized pattern has actually disappeared.

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EVANS, C., SMITH, G. Alpha-frequency of Electroencephalogram and a Stabilized Retinal Image. Nature 204, 303–304 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204303a0

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