Evidence accumulation relates to perceptual consciousness and monitoring

Humans consciously experience their surrounding environment and can reflect upon it. Here, the authors use single-neuron recordings, electroencephalographic recordings, and computational methods to show that both conscious experience and self-reflection are related to a common mechanism of evidence...

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Main Authors: Michael Pereira, Pierre Megevand, Mi Xue Tan, Wenwen Chang, Shuo Wang, Ali Rezai, Margitta Seeck, Marco Corniola, Shahan Momjian, Fosco Bernasconi, Olaf Blanke, Nathan Faivre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23540-y
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Summary:Humans consciously experience their surrounding environment and can reflect upon it. Here, the authors use single-neuron recordings, electroencephalographic recordings, and computational methods to show that both conscious experience and self-reflection are related to a common mechanism of evidence accumulation in the posterior parietal cortex.
ISSN:2041-1723