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06/08/2018

Article on anesthesia, consciousness, and EEG

A team of researchers including Katja Valli and Antti Revonsuo have published a study in Anesthesiology entitled “Differentiating Drug-related and State-related Effects of Dexmedetomidine and Propofol on the Electroencephalogram“. In short, the article investigates different states of consciousness in anesthesia using EEG.

Article by Oskar MacGregor / Publications / anesthesia, cognitive neuroscience, consciousness, method

29/08/2017

Publications over summer

Four new publications to add to the list! Our professor, Antti Revonsuo, has a new monograph coming in 2018 with the scholarly publisher Routledge, Foundations of Consciousness. According to the blurb, the book “provides an essential introduction to the scientific and philosophical approaches to consciousness for students in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy.” An […]

Article by Oskar MacGregor / Publications / attention, cognitive neuroscience, consciousness, dreams, emotion, memory, philosophy, students, thesis, visual awareness

26/06/2017

Article on visual awareness

A team of researchers including Antti Revonsuo has published an article in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience with the title “Different Electrophysiological Correlates of Visual Awareness for Detection and Identification.” In short, the article looks at the electrophysiological differences between conscious detection and conscious higher-level identification of visual stimuli.

Article by Oskar MacGregor / Publications / cognitive neuroscience, consciousness, ERP, visual awareness

27/03/2017

TMS study on primary visual cortex

A team of researchers including our own Antti Revonsuo have just published a paper in NeuroImage entitled ‘Early processing in primary visual cortex is necessary for conscious and unconscious vision while late processing is necessary only for conscious vision in neurologically healthy humans.’ Briefly, the study found that activity in the primary visual cortex at […]

Article by Oskar MacGregor / Publications / cognitive neuroscience, consciousness, visual awareness

03/06/2016

Aeon updates…

… including a story on the minimally conscious state (MCS), a polemic against the computer metaphor of the mind, an argument against the view that we have privileged access to our own thoughts, and reasoned skepticism about the dangers of AI.

Article by Oskar MacGregor / Links / artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, consciousness, ethics

10/05/2016

Neurocritic updates…

… a brief post on biased sampling when assessing brain damage in NFL players, and an interesting piece on “aphantasia”, i.e. the inability to generate mental visual images.

Article by Oskar MacGregor / Links / cognitive neuroscience, consciousness, method

11/04/2016

Online consciousness seminar

Our very own Joel Parthemore has recently completed an online seminar for the ENSO seminar series – a virtual seminar series which covers “topics on enaction, ecological psychology and related topics.”

Article by Oskar MacGregor / Media / cognitive neuroscience, concepts, consciousness, philosophy

11/04/2016

The Return of Consciousness videos available online

Videos from the Return of Consciousness international seminar from summer 2015 (at which both Antti Revonsuo and Sakari Kallio held presentations) have now been made available. The website where they are located is in Swedish, but the video content is in English. For ease of access, I will post direct links to each of the […]

Article by Oskar MacGregor / Media / cognitive neuroscience, consciousness, dreams, hypnosis

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