Against the view that consciousness and attention are fully dissociable

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Marchetti, Giorgio ^a  

^a Pozzo d'Adda   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Consciousness; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867036013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00036     Document Type: Review

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