Accounting for the Computational Basis of Consciousness: A Connectionist Approach

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 529-565

  Sun, Ron ^a,b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0033256821     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.1999.0405     Document Type: Article

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