Tutorial Commentary: Surprisingly Small Subcortical Structures Are Needed for the State of Waking Consciousness, while Cortical Projection Areas Seem to Provide Perceptual Contents of Consciousness

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 159-162

  Baars, Bernard J ^a  

^a WRIGHT INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; NERVE TRACT; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERCEPTION; THALAMIC NUCLEI; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0029312161     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.1995.1021     Document Type: Review

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