Recent studies of monkeys and humans have identified several brain regions that respond
to bodies. Researchers have so far mainly addressed the same questions about bodies and …

The clinical and para-clinical examination of residual self-consciousness in non-
communicative severely brain damaged patients (ie, coma, vegetative state and minimally …

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 …

Surprising as it may seem, research shows that we rarely see what we are looking at unless
our attention is directed to it. This phenomenon can have serious life-and-death …

Previous studies of eye gaze have shown that when looking at images containing human
faces, observers tend to rapidly focus on the facial regions. But is this true of other high-level …

Recent theoretical work has argued that in addition to the classical ventral (what) and dorsal
(where/how) visual streams, there is a third visual stream on the lateral surface of the brain …

Perceptual load theory offers a resolution to the long-standing early vs. late selection debate
over whether task-irrelevant stimuli are perceived, suggesting that irrelevant perception …

Abstract Objectives (1) To assess whether Front-of-Pack (FOP) nutrition labels garner
attention more readily than more complete, mandated nutrition information (the Nutrition …

Background: A challenge in the management of severely brain-damaged patients with
altered states of consciousness is the differential diagnosis between the vegetative state …

Theories of attention, too often generated from artificial laboratory experiments, may have
limited validity when attention in the natural world is considered. For instance, for more than …