Alpha suppression and connectivity modulations in left temporal and parietal cortices index partial awareness of words.
Neuroimage June 1, 2016 Lorenzo Magazzini, Philipp Ruhnau, Nathan Weisz
The partial awareness hypothesis is a theoretical proposal that recently provided a reconciling solution to graded and dichotomous accounts of consciousness. It suggests that we can become conscious of distinct properties of an object independently, ranging from low-level features to complex forms of representation. We investigated this hypothesis using classic visual word masking adapted to a...