A quantum approach to visual consciousness

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 472-478

  Woolf, Nancy J ^a   Hameroff, Stuart R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

QUANTUM COMPUTATION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

CONSCIOUSNESS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; NERVE CELL; NERVE MEMBRANE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REVIEW; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0035500402     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01774-5     Document Type: Review

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