Separate neural definitions of visual consciousness and visual attention; a case for phenomenal awareness

Neural Networks

Volumn 17, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 861-872

  Lamme, V A F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Awareness; Consciousness; Cortex; Feedforward sweep; Iconic memory; Perception; Phenomenal experience; Recurrent processing; Visual attention; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

VISUAL AWARENESS; VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EXPERIENCE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 4344658619     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

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