Precuneus-prefrontal activity during awareness of visual verbal stimuli
Consciousness and Cognition 10 (3):356-365 (2001)
| Abstract | Awareness is a personal experience, which is only accessible to the rest of world through interpretation. We set out to identify a neural correlate of visual awareness, using brief subliminal and supraliminal verbal stimuli while measuring cerebral blood flow distribution with H215O PET. Awareness of visual verbal stimuli differentially activated medial parietal association cortex (precuneus), which is a polymodal sensory cortex, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which is thought to be primarily executive. Our results suggest participation of these higher order perceptual and executive cortical structures in visual verbal awareness. | |||||||||
| Keywords | *Auditory Stimulation *Brain Stimulation *Cerebral Blood Flow *Consciousness States *Visual Stimulation Awareness Tomography | |||||||||
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