Attentional networks and consciousness

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Posner, Michael I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alerting; Attention networks; Executive; Orienting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867113521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00064     Document Type: Note

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