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Science 15 December 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5806, pp. 1694 - 1695
DOI: 10.1126/science.1136956
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NEUROSCIENCE:
The Impact of Invisible Stimuli

Petra Stoerig

Invisible stimuli that are irrelevant to a task are more disturbing than visible distractors because of failed communication in regions of the brain that normally supress such responses.

The author is at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. E-mail: stoerig{at}uni-duesseldorf.de

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)