Consciousness and the binding problem

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 929, Issue , 2001, Pages 123-146

  Singer, Wolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Awareness; Binding problem; Cerebral cortex; Consciousness; Social reality; Synchronization; Theory of mind; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOLUTION; REDUCTION; SELF CONCEPT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035033389     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb05712.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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