Penny A MacDonald

Anesthesia and neuroimaging: investigating the neural correlates of unconsciousness.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences January 12, 2015 Alex A. MacDonald, Lorina Naci, Penny A MacDonald et al.

In the past 15 years, rapid technological development in the field of neuroimaging has led to a resurgence of interest in the study of consciousness. However, the neural bases of consciousness and the boundaries of unconscious processing remain poorly understood. Anesthesia combined with functional neuroimaging presents a unique approach for studying neural responses as a function of...