Consciousness: Here, there and everywhere?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1668, 2015, Pages

  Tononi, Giulio ^a   Koch, Christof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LABORATORY METHOD; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

MAMMALIA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; NERVE NET;

EID: 84926143005     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0167     Document Type: Review

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