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. 2014 Mar 17;369(1641):20130203.
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0203. Print 2014 May 5.

Perceptual awareness and its neural basis: bridging experimental and theoretical paradigms

Antonino Raffone  1 , Narayanan Srinivasan, Cees van Leeuwen
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Perceptual awareness and its neural basis: bridging experimental and theoretical paradigms

Antonino Raffone et al. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. .

Abstract

Understanding consciousness is a major scientific challenge of our times, and perceptual awareness is an integral part of that challenge. This Theme Issue aims to provide a timely focus on crucial insights from leading scientists on perceptual awareness and its neural basis. The issue refers to key research questions and findings in perceptual awareness research and aims to be a catalyst for further research, by bringing together the state-of-the-art. It shows how bridges are being built between empirical and theoretical research and proposes new directions for the study of multisensory awareness and the role of the states of the body therein. In this introduction, we highlight crucial problems that have characterized the development of the study of perceptual awareness. We then provide an overview of major experimental and theoretical paradigms related to perceptual awareness and its neural basis. Finally, we present an overview of the Theme Issue, with reference to the contributed articles and their relationships.

Keywords: attention; awareness; consciousness; perception; subliminal; unconscious.

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