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Seeing sounds, hearing tastes – Synesthesia in brain and mind
Do all people experience stimulation of each sense independently? Accumulating evidence suggests that a special kind of perceptual phenomenon – syhesthesia – leads to a confusion of the specific senses. The problem ...
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An Attention-Based Control Model of Consciousness (CODAM)
Despite the recent ‘Race for consciousness’, many neuro-scientific approaches have failed to use the concept of ‘attention’ as a guide to consciousness. In this review, John G. Taylor claims that conscio...
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Consciousness under anesthesia
A breakthrough in testing unconsciousness during anesthesia So you thought that research in consciousness did not have any practical applications? Now, researchers are monitoring your level of consciousness during deep anesthes...
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Nonconscious goals and ‘mysterious moods’
Are you in control of your faculties? When you suddenly are in a bad mood, do you really know why? Why you can be in a bad mood without knowing why Carl Gustav Jung, one of the early psychoanalysts, once said that just as we ca...
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Tilt after-effect from invisible patterns
Even if you do not see the fine graitings on a screen, it might cause alterations to how you experience a stimulus afterwards. What you don’t see now will affect what you see next Vision is not perfect. The human eye is only ...
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Touching what is out there
The conscious sensation of touch is felt at the location of the tactile stimulus: we feel the key or the pen that we pick up at our fingertips rather than in the brain where the sensory signals end up. If we use a tool to explo...
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Motion induced blindness
Even if you fix your gaze at one of these yellow dots, it will eventually disappear! A newly uncovered visual illusion poses problems for theories of conscious vision. Striking visual disappearance in normal-sighted observers u...
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Consciousness Science 2002: past, present, and future.
What is the current state of the science of consciousness? In this editorial, Annti Revonsuo shares his view on this matter, that consciousness science should strive to become more unified. The present wave of the scientific st...
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Automaticity, unconsciousness and speech production
Is the human brain able to preserve functions, or fragments of functions, in isolated specialised units while the brain at a global level is severely damaged? Furthermore, could one imagine preserved functions in a brain that d...