Neural correlates of consciousness in humans

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 261-270

  Rees, Geraint ^a,b   Kreiman, Gabriel ^c   Koch, Christof ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; CYTOLOGY; DREAM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; DREAMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0036549434     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn783     Document Type: Article

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