Frontiers in Psychology,
Год журнала:
2013,
Номер
4
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2013
This
joint
article
reflects
the
authors’
personal
views
regarding
noteworthy
advances
in
neuroscience
of
consciousness
last
ten
years,
and
suggests
what
we
feel
may
be
promising
future
directions.
It
is
based
on
a
small
conference
at
Samoset
Resort
Rockport,
Maine,
USA,
July
2012,
organized
by
Mind
Science
Foundation
San
Antonio,
Texas.
Here,
summarize
recent
our
understanding
subjectivity
humans
other
animals,
including
empirical,
applied,
technical
conceptual
insights.
These
include
evidence
for
importance
fronto-parietal
connectivity
feedback
processes,
both
which
enable
information
to
travel
across
distant
cortical
areas
effectively,
as
well
numerous
dissociations
between
cognitive
functions,
such
attention,
humans.
In
addition,
describe
development
mental
imagery
paradigms,
made
it
possible
identify
covert
awareness
non-responsive
subjects.
Non-human
animal
research
has
also
witnessed
substantial
specific
role
higher
order
thalamus
consciousness,
thanks
important
technological
advances.
much
progress
been
non-vertebrate
cognition
relevant
conscious
states.
Finally,
major
have
theories
their
comparison
with
available
evidence.
Along
reviewing
these
findings,
each
author
avenues
field
investigation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Год журнала:
2014,
Номер
111(40), С. 14332 - 14341
Опубликована: Сен. 9, 2014
Significance
One
of
the
main
unresolved
questions
in
cognitive
neuroscience
is
how
low-level
and
high-level
areas
visual
cortex
interact
with
each
other
during
perception
cognition.
We
investigated
whether
cortical
oscillations
can
be
used
to
distinguish
feedforward
from
feedback
processing.
studied
propagation
α-
γ-oscillations
through
layers
between
different
areas.
induced
microstimulation
influenced
them
using
a
pharmacological
approach.
The
results
these
experiments
demonstrate
that
propagate
direction,
whereas
α-oscillations
direction.
conclude
high-
low-frequency
provide
markers
processing,
respectively.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,
Год журнала:
2013,
Номер
7
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2013
In
recent
years
high-frequency
brain
activity
in
the
gamma-frequency
band
(30
to
80
Hz)
and
above
has
become
focus
of
a
growing
body
work
MEG/EEG
research.
Unfortunately,
neural
overlaps
entirely
with
spectral
bandwidth
muscle
(~20-300
Hz).
It
is
becoming
appreciated
that
artifacts
may
contaminate
number
non-invasive
reports
high
frequency
activity.
this
review,
spectral,
spatial
temporal
characteristics
are
compared
those
described
(so
far)
for
addition,
several
techniques
being
developed
help
suppress
reviewed.
Suggestions
made
collection,
analysis
presentation
experimental
data
aim
reducing
publications
future
contain
artifacts.
