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Empirical support for higher-order theories of conscious awareness
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This work defends the higher-order view against several major criticisms, such as prefrontal activity reflects attention but not awareness, and prefrontal lesion does not abolish awareness.About:
This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 580 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Electromagnetic theories of consciousness & Empirical research.read more
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The multidimensional brain.
TL;DR: It is argued that the principle "the higher the dimension, the greater the information" may explain the occurrence of mental activities and elucidate the mechanisms of human diseases associated with dimensionality reduction.
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Does the Prefrontal Cortex Play an Essential Role in Consciousness? Insights from Intracranial Electrical Stimulation of the Human Brain.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a synthesis of research that has used intracranial electrical stimulation (iES) for the causal modulation of neural activity in the human prefrontal cortex.
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Prestimulus alpha-band power biases visual discrimination confidence, but not accuracy
TL;DR: Using a two-choice orientation discrimination task with equally probable stimuli, it is found that discrimination accuracy was unaffected by fluctuations in prestimulus alpha-band power, constituting a clear dissociation between objective and subjective measures of visual perception as a function of Prestimulus cortical excitability.
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Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Reveals Dissociations Between Subjective Fear and Its Physiological Correlates
TL;DR: The present findings are in support of the recent call for caution in assuming a one-to-one mapping between subjective sufferings and their putative biosignals, despite the clear advantages in the latter’s being objectively and continuously measurable in physiological terms.
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Decoding the contents of consciousness from prefrontal ensembles
Kapoor,A Dwarakanath,S Safavi,J Werner,Michel Besserve,F Panagiotaropoulos,Nikos K. Logothetis +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, prefrontal ensembles of macaque monkeys were recorded during a no-report paradigm of binocular rivalry that instigates internally driven transitions in conscious perception, and the contents of consciousness from prefrontal ensemble activity were decoded with an accuracy similar to when these stimuli were presented without competition.
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