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Brain, Vol. 123, No. 1, 187-189, January 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

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CONSCIOUSNESS IN ACTION.

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Dr Adam Zeman

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

The study of consciousness is an increasingly popular pastime, if not yet an entirely respectable one. Several factors have contributed to its growing appeal over the last 10 years. First, basic neuroscience, allied with functional imaging, has revealed exquisite correlations between neural activity and subjective experience. These lend powerful support to the neuroscientist's article of faith, that every distinction drawn in awareness will be reflected in a distinctive pattern of neural activity. Second, there is a growing understanding of a range of neural processes which influence behaviour, yet never seem to be captured by the `spotlight' of consciousness, such as blindsight, `blind touch' and `blind smell'. Subtracting the activity which subserves these unconscious abilities from the totality of the neural processes excited . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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