Brain and the composition of conscious experience: Of deep and surface structure; frames of reference; episode and executive; models and monitors

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 19-42

  Pribram, Karl H ^a  

^a RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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