Identifying mental states from neural states under mental constraints

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-81

  Atmanspacher, Harald ^a,b  

^a Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology   (Germany)

^b Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Collegium Helveticum   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mental constraints; Mental states; Neural states

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860914722     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0058     Document Type: Article

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