Characterizing Consciousness: From Cognition to the Clinic?

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dehaene, Stanislas (Editor), Christen, Yves (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Biomedicine.

Characterizing the computational architecture and neurobiological mechanisms underlying consciousness is a major unsolved problem in cognitive neuroscience. Yet, thanks to new advances in stimulation paradigms, brain imaging techniques, and neuronal theorizing, the issue now appears to be empiricall...