The neural basis of event-time introspection

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1899-1915

  Guggisberg, Adrian G ^a,b   Dalal, Sarang S ^a,c   Schnider, Armin ^b   Nagarajan, Srikantan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Decision making; High gamma oscillations; Libet; Magnetoencephalography; Meta consciousness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; INTENTION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 80054856978     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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