Emergence and transmission of visual awareness through optical coding in the brain: A redox molecular hypothesis on visual mental imagery

Bioscience Hypotheses

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 226-232

  Bókkon, István ^a   D'Angiulli, Amedeo ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biophotons; Color memory; Cytochrome oxidase pathways; Imagery debate; Mitochondrial networks; Phosphenes; Primary visual cortex; Radical processes; Retinotopic organization; TMS; Visual mental images

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BRAIN CORTEX; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 70350045146     PISSN: 17562392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bihy.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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