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Measuring consciousness: relating behavioural and neurophysiological measures
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posted on 2023-06-07, 21:15 authored by Anil SethAnil Seth, Zoltan DienesZoltan Dienes, Axel Cleeremans, Morten Overgaard, Luiz PessoaThe resurgent science of consciousness has been accompanied by a recent emphasis on the problem of measurement. Having dependable measures of consciousness is essential both for mapping experimental evidence to theory and for designing perspicuous experiments. Here, we review a series of behavioural and brain-based measures, assessing their ability to track graded consciousness and clarifying how they relate to each other by showing what theories are presupposed by each. We identify possible and actual conflicts among measures that can stimulate new experiments, and we conclude that measures must prove themselves by iteratively building knowledge in the context of theoretical frameworks. Advances in measuring consciousness have implications for basic cognitive neuroscience, for comparative studies of consciousness and for clinical applications
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
Trends in Cognitive SciencesISSN
1364-6613External DOI
Issue
8Volume
12Page range
314-321Pages
8.0Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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Peer reviewed?
- Yes