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. 2009 Mar;7(3):e1000066.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000066. Epub 2009 Mar 17.

Exploring the "global workspace" of consciousness

Richard Robinson
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Exploring the "global workspace" of consciousness

Richard Robinson. PLoS Biol. 2009 Mar.
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A hallmark of conscious visual perception is the sudden increase of communication between distant brain areas. Less than half a second after a word was flashed on a screen, its conscious perception was associated with a burst of synchrony within a dedicated range of frequencies (red spot around 20 Hz). This signature was absent during nonconscious perception of subliminal words.
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