The anterior insular cortex (AIC) is implicated in a wide range of conditions and behaviours,
from bowel distension and orgasm, to cigarette craving and maternal love, to decision …

This article addresses the neuroanatomical evidence for a progression of integrative
representations of affective feelings from the body that lead to an ultimate representation of …

What is the best way of assessing the extent to which people are aware of a stimulus? Here,
using a masked visual identification task, we compared three measures of subjective …

“A first-class intellectual adventure.”—Brian Greene, author of Until the End of Time
Illuminating his groundbreaking theory of consciousness, known as the attention schema …

This review deals with the physiology of the initiation of a voluntary movement and the
appreciation of whether it is voluntary or not. I argue that free will is not a driving force for …

Which aspects of our sensory environment enter conscious awareness does not only
depend on physical features of the stimulus, but also critically on the so-called current brain …

The basal ganglia have traditionally been viewed as motor processing nuclei; however,
functional neuroimaging evidence has implicated these structures in more complex …

Previous investigations of alertness have confounded it with selective attention because
targets were highly predictable. To truly isolate alertness we devised a sparse event-related …

Early visual deprivation can lead to changes in the brain, which may be explained by either
of two hypotheses. The general loss hypothesis has been proposed to explain …

Event-related potential (ERP) studies have attempted to discover the processes that underlie
conscious visual perception by contrasting ERPs produced by stimuli that are consciously …