PLoS One2025Kengo Takahashi, Samuel Pontes Quero, Julien Fiorilli et al.
A major debate in the field of consciousness pertains to whether neuronal activity or rather the causal structure of neural circuits underlie the generation of conscious experience. The former position is held by theoretical accounts of consciousness based on the predictive processing framework (such as neurorepresentationalism and active inference), while the latter is posited by the...
Abstract During sleep onset (i.e. hypnagogia), visual hallucinations can occur in healthy human subjects following prolonged sensory experience. These percepts at sleep onset also occur in amnesiac patients and have signatures in human scalp electroencephalography recordings, suggesting a cortical origin. At the cellular level, neuronal ensembles, defined as groups of coactive neurons, dominate...