A starting point for consciousness research: Reply to Thomas Schmidt |
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| Institution: | 1. Yale University, Department of Psychology, 2 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT 06520, United States;2. Emory University, Department of Psychology, 36 Eagle Row, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States;2. Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1409 W. Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States of America;1. Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530, USA;2. Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul 34450, Turkey;3. Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA;4. School of Education and Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA;1. Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, 1 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3NP, UK;2. Departamento de Física da Universidade de Aveiro and CIDMA, Campus de Santiago, 3810-183 Aveiro, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | Anesthesia research has focused on showing learning in the absence of awareness for good practical reasons. Crucially, continued learning during otherwise clinically adequate anesthesia may affect patients’ well-being on recovery. Theoretically, preserved perceptual priming during anesthesia offers a useful starting point for consciousness research by determining the limits of memory function during minimal (if not absent) consciousness. The big question for consciousness research is not to demonstrate absolutely unconscious processing, but rather to map out the cognitive and neurobiological processes that enable conscious experience itself. |
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