Qualia and the Ventral Prefrontal Cortical Function: 'Neurophenomenological' Hypothesis

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 14-48

  Northoff, Georg ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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