Higher-order theories of consciousness argue that conscious awareness crucially depends
on higher-order mental representations that represent oneself as being in particular mental …

Many emotional stimuli are processed without being consciously perceived. Recent
evidence indicates that subcortical structures have a substantial role in this processing …

In recent years, numerous electrophysiological signatures of consciousness have been
proposed. Here, we perform a systematic analysis of these electroencephalography markers …

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive
science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of …

This introductory chapter attempts to clarify the philosophical, empirical, and theoretical
bases on which a cognitive neuroscience approach to consciousness can be founded. We …

A minimal hypothesis is proposed concerning the brain processes underlying effortful tasks.
It distinguishes two main computational spaces: a unique global workspace composed of …

A patient with selective bilateral damage to the amygdala did not acquire conditioned
autonomic responses to visual or auditory stimuli but did acquire the declarative facts about …

Some mental events are conscious, some are unconscious. What is the difference between
the two? Uriah Kriegel offers the following answer: whatever else they may represent …

Neuroimaging studies have shown differential amygdala responses to masked (“unseen”)
emotional stimuli. How visual signals related to such unseen stimuli access the amygdala is …

A broad range of evidence regarding the functional organization of the vertebrate brain–
spanning from comparative neurology to experimental psychology and neurophysiology to …