Two Roads Less Travelled by Psychoanalysis
Neuropsychoanalysis 2011 DOI: 10.1080/15294145.2011.10773660 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that two developments are important for discovering the brain basis of the unconscious: optogenetics, which permits causal intervention in specified neuronal populations in behaving animals, and Tononi's integrated information theory, an information-based account of consciousness. |
Abstract
Two recent developments that are of import to discovering the brain basis of the unconscious are discussed: First, the development of optogenetics, allowing the astute neuroscientist to causally intervene in a specified neuronal population in a very specific manner in behaving experimental animals. Second, the development of an information-based account of consciousness—Tononi’s integrated information theory.
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