Ramesh Kushwaha

P3b, consciousness, and complex unconscious processing.

Cortex September 25, 2015 Brian H Silverstein, Michael Snodgrass, Howard Shevrin et al.

How can perceptual consciousness be indexed in humans? Recent work with ERPs suggests that P3b, a relatively late component, may be a neural correlate of consciousness (NCC). This proposal dovetails with currently prevailing cognitive theory regarding the nature of conscious versus unconscious processes, which holds that the latter are simple and very brief, whereas consciousness is ostensibly...