Dimensions of animal consciousness

J Birch, AK Schnell, NS Clayton - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
How does consciousness vary across the animal kingdom? Are some animals 'more
conscious' than others? This article presents a multidimensional framework for …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a comparative science of emotion: Affect and consciousness in humans and animals

ES Paul, S Sher, M Tamietto, P Winkielman… - Neuroscience & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The componential view of human emotion recognises that affective states comprise
conscious, behavioural, physiological, neural and cognitive elements. Although many …

Spared perilesional V1 activity underlies training-induced recovery of luminance detection sensitivity in cortically-blind patients

A Barbot, A Das, MD Melnick, MR Cavanaugh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) causes homonymous visual-field loss long
considered intractable. Multiple studies now show that perceptual training can restore visual …

Functional preservation and enhanced capacity for visual restoration in subacute occipital stroke

EL Saionz, D Tadin, MD Melnick, KR Huxlin - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Stroke damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) causes a loss of vision known as
hemianopia or cortically-induced blindness. While perimetric visual field improvements can …

Amygdala function in emotion, cognition, and behavior

J Domínguez-Borràs, P Vuilleumier - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2022 - Elsevier
The amygdala is a core structure in the anterior medial temporal lobe, with an important role
in several brain functions involving memory, emotion, perception, social cognition, and even …

The elusive cephalic phase insulin response: triggers, mechanisms, and functions

W Langhans, AG Watts, AC Spector - Physiological reviews, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
The cephalic phase insulin response (CPIR) is classically defined as a head receptor-
induced early release of insulin during eating that precedes a postabsorptive rise in blood …

Blindsight relies on a functional connection between hMT+ and the lateral geniculate nucleus, not the pulvinar

S Ajina, H Bridge - PLoS biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
When the primary visual cortex (V1) is damaged, the principal visual pathway is lost, causing
a loss of vision in the opposite visual field. While conscious vision is impaired, patients can …

Rehabilitation of cortically induced visual field loss

EL Saionz, SE Feldon, KR Huxlin - Current Opinion in Neurology, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Research has uncovered substantial visual plasticity after occipital strokes, suggesting that
rehabilitative strategies for this condition should be more aggressive. For maximal benefit …

Optic tract shrinkage limits visual restoration after occipital stroke

BK Fahrenthold, MR Cavanaugh, S Jang, AJ Murphy… - Stroke, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose: Damage to the adult primary visual cortex (V1) causes vision loss
in the contralateral visual hemifield, initiating a process of trans-synaptic retrograde …

Neural activities during the Processing of unattended and unseen emotional faces: a voxel-wise Meta-analysis

Z Qiu, X Lei, SI Becker, AJ Pegna - Brain imaging and behavior, 2022 - Springer
Voxel-wise meta-analyses of task-evoked regional activity were conducted for healthy
individuals during the unconscious processing of emotional and neutral faces with an aim to …