The neural subjective frame: From bodily signals to perceptual consciousness

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1641, 2014, Pages

  Park, Hyeong Dong ^a   Tallon Baudry, Catherine ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Brain body interactions; Emotion; Feeling; Perceptual awareness; Self consciousness; Subjective experience

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BRAIN; HOMEOSTASIS; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN-BODY INTERACTIONS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEELING; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; NERVE TRACT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL AWARENESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE;

BRAIN-BODY INTERACTIONS; EMOTION; FEELING; PERCEPTUAL AWARENESS; SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE;

AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896269419     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0208     Document Type: Article

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