Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 204-211

  Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b   Changeux, Jean Pierre ^b,c   Naccache, Lionel ^a   Sackur, Jérôme ^a   Sergent, Claire ^a  

^a Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot ^*  (France)

^b Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUROLOGY; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

GLOBAL NEURONAL WORKSPACE HYPOTHESIS; NEURAL MECHANISMS; NEUROIMAGING; TAXONOMY; VISUAL STIMULUS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN STEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SLEEP; TAXONOMY; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUBLIMATION;

EID: 33646369143     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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