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Tristan Bekinschtein

University Lecturer in Psychology · University of Cambridge

Cambridge, UKWebsite

Research Areas

Disorders of ConsciousnessNeuroscienceConsciousness

About

Neuroscientist studying consciousness in brain-injured patients and during sleep, using auditory paradigms to detect covert cognition in vegetative and minimally conscious patients.

Publications

  • Classical conditioning in the vegetative and minimally conscious state
  • Neural signatures of consciousness during sleep

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.

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