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About
Neuroscientist who pioneered the use of fMRI to detect consciousness in patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state, demonstrating that some can respond to commands through brain activity alone.
Publications
- Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
- Detecting Awareness in the Vegetative State (Science)
- When Thoughts Become Action: An fMRI Paradigm to Study Volitional Brain Activity in Non-Communicative Brain Injured Patients
Related Guides
Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (HOT)
Rosenthal and Lau's framework proposing consciousness requires higher-order mental representations about our own mental states.
Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)
Penrose and Hameroff's quantum theory proposing consciousness arises from gravitational self-collapse in neuronal microtubules.
Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)
The search for the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept.
Idealism in Philosophy of Mind
Bernardo Kastrup's analytical idealism and the philosophical tradition arguing consciousness is fundamental, not matter.
