Detecting conscious awareness from involuntary autonomic responses

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 936-942

  Scott, Ryan B ^a   Minati, Ludovico ^b,c   Dienes, Zoltan ^a   Critchley, Hugo D ^a,b   Seth, Anil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conscious awareness; Consciousness; Disorders of consciousness; Locked in syndrome; Minimally conscious state; Persistent vegetative state; Unconscious knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; AVERSION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CONSCIOUS AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051663262     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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