Is visual processing in the dorsal stream accessible to consciousness?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1737, 2012, Pages 2289-2298

  Milner, A David ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Consciousness; Neuroscience; Vision

Indexed keywords

PRIMATES;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865604767     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2663     Document Type: Article

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