Damage to the primary visual cortex causes loss of conscious vision, yet some patients retain the ability to respond to stimuli despite reporting no visual experience. Why similar lesions produce such different behavioral phenotypes remains unclear. While research to date has focused primarily on spared pathways that bypass V1, here we asked whether these divergent outcomes are also linked to...
How the activity and connectivity of the brain support consciousness remains a central question in neuroscience. Recent progress driven by the use of functional MRI has seen growing recognition that large-scale distributed functional organisation of the human and non-human primate brain are systematically and consistently reshaped by anaesthetic-induced unconsciousness, across anaesthetics and...