The radical plasticity thesis: How the brain learns to be conscious

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Cleeremans, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Emotion; Learning; Neural networks; Subjective experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865374256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00086     Document Type: Article

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