Neuronal correlates to consciousness. the Hall of Mirrors metaphor describing consciousness as an epiphenomenon of multiple dynamic mosaics of cortical functional modules

Brain Research

Volumn 1476, Issue , 2012, Pages 3-21

  Agnati, Luigi Francesco ^a   Guidolin, Diego ^b   Cortelli, Pietro ^c   Genedani, Susanna ^d   Cela Conde, Camilo ^e   Fuxe, Kjell ^f  

^a IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cellular sentience; Consciousness; Functional module mosaic; Hall of Mirrors; Internal theater; Mirror neuron

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CELL INTERACTION; CLAUSTRUM; CONSCIOUSNESS; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOSAICISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; METAPHOR; MIRROR NEURONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROGLIA;

CORDEAUXIA EDULIS;

EID: 84866882814     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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