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Characteristics
Review
Peer reviewed
Topics
Philosophy of mind
Key findings
Fetal and infant brain activity reveals clues about when human conscious experience begins, with key neural transitions around birth and early infancy.
Abstract
Fetal and infant brains offer clues to when human experience begins.
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