Brain endogenous feedback and degrees of consciousness

Consciousness: States, Mechanisms and Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-53

  Carrara Augustenborg, Claudia ^a   Pereira, Alfredo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

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