The ‘correlates’ in neural correlates of consciousness
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews June 5, 2011 Tom A. de Graaf, Po‐jang Hsieh, Alexander T. Sack 273 citations
In the search for neural correlates of consciousness (NCC), the concept of 'consciousness' remains problematic. We suggest that not only the 'consciousness' in neural correlates of consciousness is a confused term, but 'correlates' is as well. When brain events are found to covary with conscious experience, these brain events can be the neural substrates of the experience, as is often...