The assessment and prediction of cognitive performance is a key issue for any discipline
concerned with human operators in the context of safety-critical behavior. Most of the …

Since the original characterization of the ventral visual pathway, our knowledge of its
neuroanatomy, functional properties, and extrinsic targets has grown considerably. Here we …

WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain
and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness …

The pain matrix is conceptualised here as a fluid system composed of several interacting
networks. A nociceptive matrix receiving spinothalamic projections (mainly posterior …

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive
science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of …

We review evidence for partially segregated networks of brain areas that carry out different
attentional functions. One system, which includes parts of the intraparietal cortex and …

Many emotional stimuli are processed without being consciously perceived. Recent
evidence indicates that subcortical structures have a substantial role in this processing …

Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical, and psychological approaches to vision
rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Of the many brain events evoked by a visual stimulus, which are specifically associated with
conscious perception, and which merely reflect non-conscious processing? Several recent …