How is conscious experience related to material brain processes? A variety of theories
aiming to answer this age-old question have emerged from the recent surge in …

We are continuously bombarded by external inputs of various timescales from the
environment. How does the brain process this multitude of timescales? Recent resting state …

The seminal paper of Crick and Koch (2005) proposed that the claustrum, an enigmatic and
thin grey matter structure that lies beside the insular cortex, may be involved in the …

The reality-virtuality continuum encompasses a multitude of objects, events and
environments ranging from real-world multisensory inputs to interactive multisensory virtual …

The mismatch negativity (MMN) is a key biomarker of automatic deviance detection thought
to emerge from 2 cortical sources. First, the auditory cortex (AC) encodes spectral …

It has become widely accepted that humans use contextual information to infer the meaning
of ambiguous acoustic signals. In speech, for example, high-level semantic, syntactic, or …

In recent years, technical and procedural advances have brought functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) to the field of murine neuroscience. Due to its unique capacity to …

Traditional neuroscience sees sensory perception as a simple feedforward process. This
view is challenged by the predictive coding model in recent years due to the robust evidence …

Awareness or consciousness in the context of stimulus perception can directly be assessed
in well controlled test situations with humans via the persons' reports about their subjective …

The directionality of network information flow dictates how networks process information. A
central component of information processing in both biological and artificial neural networks …