Culture and inattentional blindness: A global workspace perspective

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 378-390

  Wallace, Rodrick ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandpass; Cognition; Consciousness; Culture; Directed homotopy; Global workspace; Groupoid; Inattentional blindness; Information theory; Random network; Rate distortion manifold; Topology

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CULTURAL HERITAGE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOPOLOGY; WORKPLACE;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY ANALYSIS;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; CULTURE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 33847008676     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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