Subjective referral of the timing for a conscious sensory experience: A functional role for the somatosensory specific projection system in-man

Brain

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 193-224

  Libet, Benjamin ^a,b,c   Wright, Elwood W ^a,b,c   Feinstein, Bertram ^a,b,c   Pearl, Dennis K ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ETIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN CELL; NORMAL HUMAN;

BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMAN; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SENSATION; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0018352296     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/102.1.193     Document Type: Article

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