Large-Scale Temporal Coordination of Cortical Activity as a Prerequisite for Conscious Experience

The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 605-615

  Singer, Wolf ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Codes; Cortical activity; Explicit strategy; Prerequisite; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149120418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751466.ch48     Document Type: Chapter

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