Measuring away an attentional confound?
Neuroscience of Consciousness 2017 Jorge Morales, Yasha Mouradi, Claire Sergent et al.
A recent fMRI study by Webb et al. (Cortical networks involved in visual awareness independent of visual attention, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016;113:13923-28) proposes a new method for finding the neural correlates of awareness by matching attention across awareness conditions. The experimental design, however, seems at odds with known features of attention. We highlight logical and...
DOI: 10.1093/nc/nix018 (opens in new tab)
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Attention
Awareness
Consciousness
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