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Geraint Rees

8 papers in the library · 400 citations · publishing 2001-2014

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Distinct MEG correlates of conscious experience, perceptual reversals and stabilization during binocular rivalry.

Neuroimage October 15, 2014 Kristian Sandberg, Gareth Robert Barnes, Bahador Bahrami et al.

During binocular rivalry, visual perception alternates spontaneously between two different monocular images. Such perceptual reversals are slowed or halted if stimuli are presented intermittently with inter-stimulus intervals larger than ~400 ms--a phenomenon called stabilization. Often, the neural correlates of reversal and stabilization are studied separately, and both phenomena in turn are...

Cognitive-Affective Neural Plasticity following Active-Controlled Mindfulness Intervention

Journal of Neuroscience October 31, 2012 Micah Allen, Martin Dietz, Karina S. Blair et al. 389 citations

Mindfulness meditation is a set of attention-based, regulatory, and self-inquiry training regimes. Although the impact of mindfulness training (MT) on self-regulation is well established, the neural mechanisms supporting such plasticity are poorly understood. MT is thought to act through interoceptive salience and attentional control mechanisms, but until now conflicting evidence from...

Decoding the neural correlates of consciousness.

Current Opinion in Neurology December 1, 2010 R. Weil, G. Rees

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) is an emerging technique for analysing functional imaging data that is capable of a much closer approximation of neuronal activity than conventional methods. This review will outline the advantages, applications and limitations of MVPA in understanding the neural correlates of consciousness. RECENT FINDINGS: MVPA has provided important...

Relating introspective accuracy to individual differences in brain structure.

Science (New York, N.Y.) September 17, 2010 Stephen M Fleming, Rimona S Weil, Zoltán Nagy et al.

The ability to introspect about self-performance is key to human subjective experience, but the neuroanatomical basis of this ability is unknown. Such accurate introspection requires discriminating correct decisions from incorrect ones, a capacity that varies substantially across individuals. We dissociated variation in introspective ability from objective performance in a simple...

The cognitive neuroscience of consciousness

Cognitive Neuroscience August 18, 2010 Geraint Rees, Anil K. Seth 11 citations

The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness. Experimental approaches from cognitive neuroscience that emphasize converging evidence from multiple methodologies have changed our understanding of how conscious mental states are associated with patterns of brain activity. In this special issue of Cognitive Neuroscience, we bring together five...

Predicting the stream of consciousness from activity in human visual cortex.

Current biology : CB July 26, 2005 John-Dylan Haynes, Geraint Rees

Can the rapid stream of conscious experience be predicted from brain activity alone? Recently, spatial patterns of activity in visual cortex have been successfully used to predict feature-specific stimulus representations for both visible and invisible stimuli. However, because these studies examined only the prediction of static and unchanging perceptual states during extended periods of...

Neural correlates of consciousness are not pictorial representations

Behavioral and Brain Sciences October 1, 2001 Geraint Rees, Chris Frith

O'Regan & Noë (O&N) are pessimistic about the prospects for discovering the neural correlates of consciousness. They argue that there can be no one-to-one correspondence between awareness and patterns of neural activity in the brain, so a project attempting to identify the neural correlates of consciousness is doomed to failure. We believe that this degree of pessimism may be overstated; recent...