Intuitive versus theory-based assessment of consciousness: The problem of low-level consciousness

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 430-432

  Kotchoubey, Boris ^a   Lang, Simone ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; INTUITION; LOW LEVEL CONSCIOUSNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEUROLOGY; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 78751626564     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.07.011     Document Type: Editorial

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