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CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 323-335Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2003.10.004
Keywords
awareness; consciousness; attention; fMRI; anterior cingulate; frontopolar cortex; attentional blink
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- NIDA NIH HHS [R21DA13186] Funding Source: Medline
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In recent years, cognitive neuroscientists have began to explore the process of how sensory information gains access to awareness. To further probe this process, event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used while testing subjects with a paradigm known as the attentional blink. In this paradigm, visually presented information sporadically fails to reach awareness. It was found that the magnitude and time course of activation within the anterior cingulate (BA 32), medial prefrontal cortex (BA 9), and frontopolar cortex (BA 10) predicted whether or not information was consciously perceived during the critical period for the attentional blink. These results are discussed in light of a neural framework for conscious processing. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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