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The measurement problem in consciousness research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2008

Rafael Malach
Rafael Malach
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 76100. rafi.malach@weizmann.ac.ilhttp://www.weizmann.ac.il/neurobiology/labs/malach
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Abstract

States of sensory absorption may offer a means to disentangle perception from report. Interestingly, such states lead to an antagonistic relationship between perceptual and cognitive-access networks, suggesting that perceptual awareness does not depend on a read-out by high order cognitive-access mechanisms. Rather, it may emerge internally, through a cooperative coding dynamics, whereby each neuron simultaneously represents and reads-out the perceptual awareness state.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 5-6 , December 2007 , pp. 516 - 517
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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