Information sharing in the brain indexes consciousness in noncommunicative patients.
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SUBMITTER: King JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5635964 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
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Information sharing in the brain indexes consciousness in noncommunicative patients.
King Jean-Rémi JR Sitt Jacobo D JD Faugeras Frédéric F Rohaut Benjamin B El Karoui Imen I Cohen Laurent L Naccache Lionel L Dehaene Stanislas S
Current biology : CB 20130926 19
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 may be detectable using scalp electroencephalography (EEG). However, whether global information sharing across brain areas also provides a specific signature of conscious state in awake but noncommunic ...[more]
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