The role of the frontal cortex in consciousness remains a matter of debate. In this
Perspective, we will critically review the clinical and neuroimaging evidence for the …

Mental imagery research has weathered both disbelief of the phenomenon and inherent
methodological limitations. Here we review recent behavioral, brain imaging, and clinical …

Reconstructing visual experiences from human brain activity offers a unique way to
understand how the brain represents the world, and to interpret the connection between …

'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark
Solms'-Oliver Burkeman, Guardian'A remarkable book. It changes everything'-Brian Eno …

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is the prototypical psychedelic drug, but its effects on the
human brain have never been studied before with modern neuroimaging. Here, three …

For most people, visual imagery is an innate feature of many of our internal experiences,
and appears to play a critical role in supporting core cognitive processes. Some individuals …

The curse of dimensionality plagues models of reinforcement learning and decision making.
The process of abstraction solves this by constructing variables describing features shared …

Converging evidence suggests that the primate ventral visual pathway encodes increasingly
complex stimulus features in downstream areas. We quantitatively show that there indeed …

The goal of consciousness research is to reveal the neural basis of phenomenal experience.
To study phenomenology, experimenters seem obliged to ask reports from the subjects to …

Regions of transmodal cortex, in particular the default mode network (DMN), have
historically been argued to serve functions unrelated to task performance, in part because of …