Perceptual awareness and its neural basis: bridging experimental and theoretical paradigms.
Antonino Raffone, Narayanan Srinivasan, Cees van Leeuwen
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences March 17, 2014 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0203 (opens in new tab)
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| Keywords | Brain Humans Awareness Consciousness Perception Models, psychological Attention Subliminal Unconscious |
| Key points | Argues that perceptual awareness is central to the scientific challenge of understanding consciousness, and that progress requires bridging empirical and theoretical research. Proposes new directions for studying multisensory awareness and the role of body states, and presents a Theme Issue of contributed articles on perceptual awareness and its neural basis. |
Abstract
Understanding consciousness is a major scientific challenge of our times, and perceptual awareness is an integral part of that challenge. This Theme Issue aims to provide a timely focus on crucial insights from leading scientists on perceptual awareness and its neural basis. The issue refers to key research questions and findings in perceptual awareness research and aims to be a catalyst for further research, by bringing together the state-of-the-art. It shows how bridges are being built between empirical and theoretical research and proposes new directions for the study of multisensory awareness and the role of the states of the body therein. In this introduction, we highlight crucial problems that have characterized the development of the study of perceptual awareness. We then provide an overview of major experimental and theoretical paradigms related to perceptual awareness and its neural basis. Finally, we present an overview of the Theme Issue, with reference to the contributed articles and their relationships.
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