Multisensory integration in peripersonal space indexes consciousness states in sleep and disorders of consciousness.
Cell reports. Medicine April 21, 2026 Tommaso Bertoni, Giulia Ricci, Jane Jöhr et al. 1 citation
Reliably detecting consciousness in unresponsive patients remains an urgent ethical and clinical challenge, as no behavior-independent marker is currently accepted in clinical practice. We characterize consciousness as linked to a representation of the embodied subject of experience, mediated by multisensory integration within the peripersonal space (PPS) system. We test whether a neural marker...