Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
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...
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...
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...
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...
“The Illusion of Conscious Will”, by DM Wegner
Reviewed by Thomas W. ClarkIn neuroscientific circles, it is simply commonsense physicalism that the brain conducts business on its own. It doesn’t need a further, non-physical agent to orchestrate the dauntingly complex oper...
Empty mind — a brain disorder?
A French neurological team has described a surprising new brain disorder — a deficit of spontaneous conscious thinking. LaPlane and Dubois describe it as “auto-activation deficit.” (*) People with this problem lose sp...
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