Consciousness
Between the midbrain and the cortex is the thala- mus, which contains relay areas for sensory inputs including vision, hearing, ...
Chapter Four Neuroscience those relating to neighbouring areas of skin or muscles, or the visual field. Sensory areas are organi ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn Binocular rivalry, by contrast, is found when different images are presented to the two eyes. For exampl ...
Chapter Four Neuroscience will come back to these later in this chapter. For now, we suggest that you keep this basic experiment ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn problem head on. We should try and find the neural correlates that correspond to what we’re conscious of ...
Chapter Four Neuroscience describing the areas identified in the neuroimaging studies as visual conscious- ness areas (ffytche, ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn We can see this difference with respect to vision. The visual system is well under- stood, with somethi ...
Chapter Four Neuroscience as precentral gyrus; precuneus; intraparietal sulcus; inferior and superior parietal lobules’ (Biseniu ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn Another criticism is that research has ignored the distinction between phenom- enal consciousness and ac ...
Chapter Four Neuroscience They pressed keys to indicate which they were consciously seeing. These very different stimuli allowed ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn Other questions we can ask about binocular rivalry are more theoretical. As long ago as 1901 the theory ...
Chapter Four Neuroscience ‘top-down’ connections, the story is quite different. This comes close to a dynam- ical systems theory ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn options like the relatively new field of neurophenomenology, but for now we turn to a different compari ...
Chapter Four Neuroscience Alternatively, she might be in a ‘persistent vegetative state’ (PVS), which we touched on earlier in t ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn anaesthetics in understanding the neural basis of consciousness raises the important question of what w ...
Skills that were once done with conscious effort have become less conscious, or ‘automatised’, with time. Reading is a good exam ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn Other models of the relation between consciousness and unconsciousness try to avoid the problem of arbi ...
Chapter Four Neuroscience It might help to explore another question. Where is this pain? Common sense says it is in your arm, wh ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn Pain - has an Element of Blank - It cannot recollect When it begun - Or if there were A time when it wa ...
Knowing that you have pain requires something else that occurs after the neural patterns that correspond to the substrate of pai ...
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