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  • 1Hypnosis Unit, Department of Psychology, University College London, UK. d.oakley@ucl.ac.uk

Consciousness and Cognition
|July 13, 2005
PubMed

Abstract:

A commentary in response to B. Libet: 'The timing of brain events: Reply to the "Special Section" in this journal of September 2004, edited by Susan Pockett' ().

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