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Consciousness absent and present: a neurophysiological exploration

Edmund T Rolls1

  • 1University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. edmund.rolls@psy.ox.ac.uk

Summary

Neuronal activity in the visual cortex allows face discrimination even without conscious awareness. Higher neuronal firing and information are needed for conscious face identification, suggesting a threshold for conscious perception.

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