The “bottom-up” and “top-down” components of the hallucinatory phenomenon

The Neuroscience of Hallucinations

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 107-121

  Aleman, André ^a   Vercammen, Ans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4121-2_6     Document Type: Chapter

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