Auditory Predictive Coding across Awareness States under Anesthesia: An Intracranial Electrophysiology Study
Journal of Neuroscience August 20, 2018 Kirill V Nourski, M. Steinschneider, A. Rhone et al.
The systems-level mechanisms underlying loss of consciousness (LOC) under anesthesia remain unclear. General anesthetics suppress sensory responses within higher-order cortex and feedback connections, both critical elements of predictive coding hypotheses of conscious perception. Responses to auditory novelty may offer promise as biomarkers for consciousness. This study examined...