The disunity of consciousness

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 168, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zeki, Semir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

colour; consciousness; micro consciousness; motion; perceptual asynchrony; unity of consciousness; visual brain

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL STUDY; COLOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; NEUROBIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 37349051637     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)68002-9     Document Type: Review

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