Temporal Binding, Binocular Rivalry, and Consciousness

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 128-151

  Engel, Andreas K ^a   Fries, Pascal ^a   König, Peter ^b   Brecht, Michael ^a   Singer, Wolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; NEURONS; TIME FACTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 0033142147     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.1999.0389     Document Type: Article

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