Animal consciousness: a synthetic approach

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 476-484

  Edelman, David B ^a   Seth, Anil K ^b  

^a NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORPUS STRIATUM; EPISODIC MEMORY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VOCALIZATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MOLLUSCA; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 69949099899     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2009.05.008     Document Type: Review

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