Neural correlates of consciousness reconsidered

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 681-690

  Neisser, Joseph ^a  

^a GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Causal relevance; Consciousness; Enactivism; Manipulationism; NCC; Neural correlates; Neural mechanism; Phenomenology; Philosophy of neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELL POPULATION; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; TEMPORAL CORTEX; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AWARENESS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROSCIENCES; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84860531810     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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