Object vision and visual awareness

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 536-544

  Logethetis, Nikos ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032142955     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(98)80043-3     Document Type: Article

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