Thanks Evgenii, Yes, that looks really good. I'm going to save it to read tomorrow on the plane.
Craig On Apr 7, 2:22 am, Evgenii Rudnyi <[email protected]> wrote: > Craig, > > You may like this paper as well > > Klemm, W. (2010). Free will debates: Simple experiments are not so > simple, Advances in Cognitive > Psychologyhttp://versita.metapress.com/content/l820g65u22883625/fulltext.pdf > > I have seen it on a Russian cite: > > http://nature-wonder.livejournal.com/189090.html > > Evgenii > > On 06.04.2012 14:17 Craig Weinberg said the following: > > > > > > > > > Two more reasons to suspect that consciousness is received through the > > brain directly as primitive sense rather than decoded as complex > > information. > > > "The data from the seven participants were unambiguous. Paying > > attention to the target consistently and strongly increased the fMRI > > activity, regardless of whether the subject saw the target or not. > > This result was expected because many previous studies had shown that > > attending to a signal reinforces its representation in the cortex. > > Much more intriguing, though, was that whether or not the stimulus was > > consciously perceived made no difference to signal strength. > > Visibility didn t matter to V1; what did was whether or not selective > > visual attention focused on the grating. Indeed, the experimentalists > > could not decode from the signal whether or not the subject saw the > > stimulus." > > >http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=consciousness-does-n... > > > "We expected to see the outer bits of brain, the cerebral cortex > > (often thought to be the seat of higher human consciousness), would > > turn back on when consciousness was restored following anesthesia. > > Surprisingly, that is not what the images showed us. In fact, the > > central core structures of the more primitive brain structures > > including the thalamus and parts of the limbic system appeared to > > become functional first, suggesting that a foundational primitive > > conscious state must be restored before higher order conscious > > activity can occur" > > >http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/aof-sst040412.php -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
