No-Report Paradigms: Extracting the True Neural Correlates of Consciousness

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 757-770

  Tsuchiya, Naotsugu ^a   Wilke, Melanie ^b,c,d   Frässle, Stefan ^e   Lamme, Victor A F ^f  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Access; Attention; Awareness; Consciousness; Introspection; Report

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ACCESS; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; INTROSPECTION; REPORT;

NEURONS;

CONSCIOUSNESS; DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOMENOLOGY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84961653913     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.10.002     Document Type: Review

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