Hearts don't love and brains don't pump: Neocortical dynamic correlates of conscious experience

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 20-34

  Nunez, Paul L ^a   Srinivasan, Ramesh ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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