ReplyPartial awareness distinguishes between measuring conscious perception and conscious content: Reply to Dienes and Seth☆
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Acknowledgments
B.T. is supported by Marie Curie Action IEF #237502 “Social Brain”. A.C. is a Research Director with the National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS – FNRS, Belgium). M.O. is supported by a Starting Grant, European Research Council. This work is supported by European Commission Grant #043457 “Mindbridge – Measuring Consciousness,” and by Concerted Research Action 06/11-342 “Culturally modified organisms: What it means to be human in the age of culture“, financed by the Ministère de la Communauté
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Reply to Commentaries on Dienes, Z., & Seth, A. (2010). Measuring any conscious content versus measuring the relevant conscious content. Consciousness and Cognition, 19, 1079–1080.