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Visual consciousness in health and disease

Published inNeurologic clinics, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 647-686,vi
Publication date2003
Abstract

Conscious experience is an essential part of normal human life and interaction with the environment. Yet the nature of consciousness and conscious perception remains a mystery. Because of its subjective nature, consciousness has been difficult to investigate scientifically, but clues have been gained through studies involving patients with cortical lesions. During the past decade, the development of event-related fMRI has provided insights into aspects of conscious perception in control subjects and patients with cortical lesions by correlating awareness and performance with neural activity during visual tasks. This article reviews how recent research has advanced understanding of conscious perception, its relationship to neural activity and visual performance, and how this relationship can be altered by visual dysfunction. It also presents recent research about how conscious awareness of vision might be represented at a neural level in the central nervous system.

Keywords
  • Attention/physiology
  • Awareness/physiology
  • Consciousness/ physiology
  • Corpus Callosum/surgery
  • Dyslexia/physiopathology
  • Functional Laterality/physiology
  • Health Status
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods
  • Optical Illusions
  • Parietal Lobe/blood supply
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual/physiology
  • Perceptual Disorders/physiopathology
  • Perceptual Masking/physiology
  • Prefrontal Cortex/blood supply
  • Prosopagnosia/physiopathology
  • Time Factors
  • Unconscious (Psychology)
  • Visual Perception/ physiology
  • Vocabulary
Affiliation Not a UNIGE publication
Citation (ISO format)
WHATHAM, A. R. et al. Visual consciousness in health and disease. In: Neurologic clinics, 2003, vol. 21, n° 3, p. 647–686,vi.
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