Primary sensory cortices, top-down projections and conscious experience

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 408-417

  Meyer, Kaspar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consciousness; FMRI; Perception; Primary sensory cortex; Single unit; Top down

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIATE CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; THALAMUS; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AUDITORY CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79960466794     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: 18735118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2011.05.010     Document Type: Review

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