Auras and other hallucinations: Windows on the visual brain

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 144, Issue , 2004, Pages 305-320

  Wilkinson, Frances ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CHARLES BONNET SYNDROME; COLORIMETRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPILEPSY; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTYPY; VISION;

EID: 0344872806     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(03)14421-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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