31 Monday May 2021
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A new way of organizing science by having two competing theories of consciousness be directly confronted by experimental data pertaining to the neuronal correlates of consciousness in the human brain– does the integrated theory of consciousness or the global neuronal workspace theory better predict the location and the timing of the footprint of visual experience?
See the full story in the March 2021 issue of the international journal Science here.
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