Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond

T Bayne, AK Seth, M Massimini, J Shepherd… - Trends in cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Which systems/organisms are conscious? New tests for consciousness ('C-tests') are
urgently needed. There is persisting uncertainty about when consciousness arises in human …

Measuring consciousness: relating behavioural and neurophysiological approaches

AK Seth, Z Dienes, A Cleeremans, M Overgaard… - Trends in cognitive …, 2008 - cell.com
The resurgent science of consciousness has been accompanied by a recent emphasis on
the problem of measurement. Having dependable measures of consciousness is essential …

Indicators and criteria of consciousness in animals and intelligent machines: an inside-out approach

CMA Pennartz, M Farisco, K Evers - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In today's society, it becomes increasingly important to assess which non-human and non-
verbal beings possess consciousness. This review article aims to delineate criteria for …

The status and future of consciousness research

M Overgaard - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
As papers about consciousness are so often introduced, consciousness was until few
decades ago considered a philosophical problem only, and the current interest in empirical …

Criteria for consciousness in humans and other mammals

AK Seth, BJ Baars, DB Edelman - Consciousness and cognition, 2005 - Elsevier
The standard behavioral index for human consciousness is the ability to report events with
accuracy. While this method is routinely used for scientific and medical applications in …

Making the hard problem of consciousness easier

L Melloni, L Mudrik, M Pitts, C Koch - Science, 2021 - science.org
The history of science includes numerous challenging problems, including the “hard
problem”(1) of consciousness: Why does an assembly of neurons—no matter how complex …

Hard criteria for empirical theories of consciousness

A Doerig, A Schurger, MH Herzog - Cognitive neuroscience, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Consciousness is now a well-established field of empirical research. A large body of
experimental results has been accumulated and is steadily growing. In parallel, many …

An academic survey on theoretical foundations, common assumptions and the current state of consciousness science

JC Francken, L Beerendonk, D Molenaar… - Neuroscience of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We report the results of an academic survey into the theoretical and methodological
foundations, common assumptions, and the current state of the field of consciousness …

Consciousness in humans and non-human animals: recent advances and future directions

M Boly, AK Seth, M Wilke, P Ingmundson… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
This joint article reflects the authors' personal views regarding noteworthy advances in the
neuroscience of consciousness in the last 10 years, and suggests what we feel may be …

A neuroscientific approach to consciousness

SA Greenfield, TFT Collins - Progress in brain research, 2005 - Elsevier
For a neuroscientist, consciousness currently defies any formal operational definition.
However, the phenomenon is distinct from self-consciousness: after all, one can “let oneself …