Methodological pitfalls in the "objective" approach to consciousness: Comments on Busch et al. (2009)

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1901-1902

  Overgaard, Morten ^a   Jensen, Mads ^a,b   Sandberg, Kristian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; REFLEX; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 77956370370     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21403     Document Type: Note

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