Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Human visual consciousness involves large scale cortical and subcortical networks independent of task report and eye movement activity

  • Sharif I. Kronemer,
  • Mark Aksen,
  • Julia Z. Ding,
  • Jun Hwan Ryu,
  • Qilong Xin,
  • Zhaoxiong Ding,
  • Jacob S. Prince,
  • Hunki Kwon,
  • Aya Khalaf,
  • Sarit Forman,
  • David S. Jin,
  • Kevin Wang,
  • Kaylie Chen,
  • Claire Hu,
  • Akshar Agarwal,
  • Erik Saberski,
  • Syed Mohammad Adil Wafa,
  • Owen P. Morgan,
  • Jia Wu,
  • Kate L. Christison-Lagay,
  • Nicholas Hasulak,
  • Martha Morrell,
  • Alexandra Urban,
  • R. Todd Constable,
  • Michael Pitts,
  • R. Mark Richardson,
  • Michael J. Crowley,
  • Hal Blumenfeld

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35117-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Isolating the neural mechanisms of consciousness is complicated by task report and other irrelevant signals. Here, the authors removed report and eye movement confounds to uncover large scale cortical-subcortical networks specific for human visual consciousness.