Recent years have seen a blossoming of theories about the biological and physical basis of
consciousness. Good theories guide empirical research, allowing us to interpret data …

Is consciousness a continuous stream of percepts or is it discrete, occurring only at certain
moments in time? This question has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and …

An outstanding challenge for consciousness research is to characterize the neural signature
of conscious access independently of any decisional processes. Here we present a model …

We suggest that there is confusion between why consciousness developed and what
additional functions, through continued evolution, it has co-opted. Consider episodic …

We feel that we perceive events in the environment as they unfold in real-time. However, this
intuitive view of perception is impossible to implement in the nervous system due to …

Pre-stimulus alpha (α) activity can influence perception of shortly presented, low-contrast
stimuli. The underlying mechanisms are often thought to affect perception exactly at the time …

Consciousness science is marred by disparate constructs and methodologies, making it
challenging to systematically compare theories. This foundational crisis casts doubts on the …

Highlights•Researchers disagree about whether visual phenomenology is rich or
sparse.•Studies show that minimally attended phenomenology is subjectively overestimated …

In recent years, researchers from independent subfields have begun to engage with the idea
that the same cortical regions that contribute to on-line perception are recruited during and …

Local theories of consciousness state that one is conscious of a feature if it is adequately
represented and processed in sensory brain areas, given some background conditions. We …