The Functional Anatomy of Visual Awareness
Abstract
What is the relationship between our subjective world of perceptions, thoughts, and memories and the activity of nerve cells that must somehow be responsible for this experience? The past 5 years have witnessed a transformation in the way the neuroscience community is approaching this complex of problems. As reported below, psychophysical and electrophysiological experiments are being carried out to elucidate the neuronal correlate of sensory awareness. If this aim can be realized and the anatomical structures and neuronal groups representing the contents of sensory awareness can be identified, we will be one step closer to understanding the most mysterious and central aspect of our existence.
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© 1996 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. We thank Francis Crick for very fruitful discussions over the years, and Sheng He and Patrick Cavanagh for making Figure 3 available to us. Our work was supported by the National Science Foundation, by the Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering as a part of NSF's Engineering Research Center Program, and by the Beckman Institute at Caltech.Attached Files
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