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The human superior colliculus: Neither necessary, nor sufficient for consciousness?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2007

Susanne Watkins and
Geraint Rees
Susanne Watkins
Affiliation:
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1 N 3AR, United Kingdom. s.watkins@fil.ion.ucl.ac.ukg.rees@fil.ion.ucl.ac.ukhttp://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~grees
Geraint Rees
Affiliation:
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1 N 3AR, United Kingdom. s.watkins@fil.ion.ucl.ac.ukg.rees@fil.ion.ucl.ac.ukhttp://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~grees
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Abstract

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Non-invasive neuroimaging in humans permits direct investigation of the potential role for mesodiencephalic structures in consciousness. Activity in the superior colliculus can be correlated with the contents of consciousness, but it can be also identified for stimuli of which the subject is unaware; and consciousness of some types of visual stimuli may not require the superior colliculus.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2007, pp. 108
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press