Information integration without awareness

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 488-496

  Mudrik, Liad ^a   Faivre, Nathan ^a   Koch, Christof ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Global neural workspace; Integrated information theory; Integration; Integration windows; Multisensory integration; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEMANTICS;

CONSCIOUSNESS; GLOBAL NEURAL WORKSPACE; INTEGRATED INFORMATIONS; INTEGRATION WINDOW; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION;

INTEGRATION;

AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTEGRATION; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; BRAIN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AWARENESS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MENTAL PROCESSES;

EID: 84906784798     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.04.009     Document Type: Review

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