Some effects of cortical and callosal damage on conscious and unconscious processing of visual information and other sensory inputs

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 144, Issue , 2004, Pages 77-93

  Berlucchi, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION TEST; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; EAR; HEARING; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASTE; TOPOGRAPHY; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0344009752     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(03)14405-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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