The olfactory system as the gateway to the neural correlates of consciousness
Frontiers in Psychology 2014 Christina Merrick, Christine A. Godwin, Mark W. Geisler et al. 108 citations
How consciousness is generated by the nervous system remains one of the greatest mysteries in science. Investigators from diverse fields have begun to unravel this puzzle by contrasting conscious and unconscious processes. In this way, it has been revealed that the two kinds of processes differ in terms of the underlying neural events and associated cognitive mechanisms. We propose that, for...