The functional anatomy of visual awareness

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1996, Pages 49-57

  Koch, C ^a   Braun, J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STRIATE CORTEX;

EID: 0030429056     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1996.061.01.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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