Consciousness absent and present: A neurophysiological exploration

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 144, Issue , 2004, Pages 95-106

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; BRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; FACE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THINKING; VARIANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0344009748     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(03)14406-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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