Simulating Consciousness in a Bilateral Neural Network: "Nuclear" and "Fringe" Awareness

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 62-93

  Cook, Norman D ^a  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0033090018     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.1998.0374     Document Type: Article

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