[HTML][HTML] Thalamic contributions to the state and contents of consciousness

CJ Whyte, MJ Redinbaugh, JM Shine, YB Saalmann - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Consciousness can be conceptualized as varying along at least two dimensions: the global
state of consciousness and the content of conscious experience. Here, we highlight the …

An integrative view of the role of prefrontal cortex in consciousness

TI Panagiotaropoulos - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
The involvement of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in consciousness is an ongoing focus of
intense investigation. An important question is whether representations of conscious …

An adversarial collaboration to critically evaluate theories of consciousness

Cogitate Consortium, O Ferrante, U Gorska-Klimowska… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Different theories explain how subjective experience arises from brain activity,. These
theories have independently accrued evidence, yet, confirmation bias and dependence on …

[HTML][HTML] The neuroscience of consciousness

W Wu, J Morales - 2018 - plato.stanford.edu
Conscious experience in humans depends on brain activity, so neuroscience will contribute
to explaining consciousness. What would it be for neuroscience to explain consciousness …

[HTML][HTML] Are we really unconscious in “unconscious” states? Common assumptions revisited

A Sevenius Nilsen, BE Juel, B Thürer… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the field of consciousness science, there is a tradition to categorize certain states such as
slow-wave non-REM sleep and deep general anesthesia as “unconscious”. While this …

[HTML][HTML] Illusory object recognition is either perceptual or cognitive in origin depending on decision confidence

J Alilović, E Lampers, HA Slagter, S van Gaal - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
We occasionally misinterpret ambiguous sensory input or report a stimulus when none is
presented. It is unknown whether such errors have a sensory origin and reflect true …

Bistability of prefrontal states gates access to consciousness

A Dwarakanath, V Kapoor, J Werner, S Safavi… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Access of sensory information to consciousness has been linked to the ignition of content-
specific representations in association cortices. How does ignition interact with intrinsic …

Identifying content-invariant neural signatures of perceptual vividness

B Barnett, LM Andersen, SM Fleming, N Dijkstra - PNAS nexus, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Some conscious experiences are more vivid than others. Although perceptual vividness is a
key component of human consciousness, how variation in this magnitude property is …

Where is the 'posterior hot zone'? Open Review of Ferrante et al (2023):“An Adversarial Collaboration to Critically Evaluate Theories of Consciousness”(by the ARC …

H Lau - 2023 - psyarxiv.com
The target of this review is the June 26, 2023 version of a recent preprint (1), in which the
authors reported the first set of results of a highly publicized project (Cogitate) generously …

[HTML][HTML] The roles of edge-based and surface-based information in the dynamic neural representation of objects

L Yao, Q Fu, CH Liu - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
We combined multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) and electroencephalogram (EEG) to
investigate the role of edge, color, and other surface information in the neural representation …