A computational neuroscience approach to consciousness

Neural Networks

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 962-982

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backward masking; Binding; Consciousness; Higher order thought; Oscillations; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTATION THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; NEURONS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

BACKWARD MASKING; COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE; HIGHER ORDER THOUGHTS; SYNCHRONY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTIONS;

NEUROLOGY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTION; HIGHER ORDER SYNTACTIC THOUGHT COMPUTATIONAL THEORY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NERVE CELL; NEUROSCIENCE; OSCILLATION; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORY; THINKING; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; NEUROSCIENCES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35848965031     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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