Consciousness: Reading the Neural Signature
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The brain is the seat of consciousness yet we are unaware of much of our own neural processing. What differentiates conscious and unconscious processes? A new study suggests the answer might lie in the reproducibility of patterns of neural activation.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010