Can conscious processing be inferred from neurophysiological measurements? Some models
stipulate that the active maintenance of perceptual representations across time requires …

Background Patients diagnosed as vegetative have periods of wakefulness, but seem to be
unaware of themselves or their environment. Although functional MRI (fMRI) studies have …

Hierarchical predictive coding suggests that attention in humans emerges from increased
precision in probabilistic inference, whereas expectation biases attention in favor of …

Objective: Probing consciousness in noncommunicating patients is a major medical and
neuroscientific challenge. While standardized and expert behavioral assessment of patients …

Theoretical advances in the science of consciousness have proposed that it is concomitant
with balanced cortical integration and differentiation, enabled by efficient networks of …

Accurately measuring the neural correlates of consciousness is a grand challenge for
neuroscience. Despite theoretical advances, developing reliable brain measures to track the loss …

Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder (DD) typically manifests as a disruption of body
self-awareness. Interoception −defined as the cognitive processing of body signals− has been …

Interoception, the perception of our body internal signals, plays a key role in maintaining
homeostasis and guiding our behavior. Sometimes, we become aware of our body signals and …

What makes us laugh? One crucial component of many jokes is the disambiguation of
words with multiple meanings. In this functional MRI study of normal participants, the neural …

Falling asleep leads to a loss of sensory awareness and to the inability to interact with the
environment [1]. While this was traditionally thought as a consequence of the brain shutting …