Duplex Vision: Separate Cortical Pathways for Conscious Perception and the Control of Action

The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 616-627

  Goodale, Melvyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain tissue; Cerebral cortex; Cortical pathways; Neurological evidence; Visual guidance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891302571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751466.ch49     Document Type: Chapter

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