Attention versus consciousness in the visual brain: Differences in conception, phenomenology, behavior, neuroanatomy, and physiology

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 224-233

  Baars, Bernard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; TERMINOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOLITION;

EID: 0033159086     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221309909595364     Document Type: Article

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