Information sharing in the brain indexes consciousness in noncommunicative patients

Neuronal theories of conscious access tentatively relate conscious perception to the integration and global broadcasting of information across distant cortical and thalamic areas. Experiments contrasting visible and invisible stimuli support this view and suggest that global neuronal communication m...

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Published in:	Current biology Vol. 23; no. 19; p. 1914
Main Authors:	King, Jean-Rémi, Sitt, Jacobo D, Faugeras, Frédéric, Rohaut, Benjamin, El Karoui, Imen, Cohen, Laurent, Naccache, Lionel, Dehaene, Stanislas
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England 07.10.2013
Subjects:	Adult Brain - physiology Brain - physiopathology Brain Mapping Coma - physiopathology Consciousness - physiology Electroencephalography Female Humans Male Middle Aged Persistent Vegetative State - physiopathology Wakefulness - physiology
ISSN:	1879-0445, 1879-0445
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