A roadmap for the study of conscious audition and its neural basis.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences February 19, 2017 Andrew R Dykstra, Peter A Cariani, Alexander Gutschalk
A roadmap for studying conscious auditory perception is outlined, emphasizing how conscious experience emerges in complex auditory scenes. The authors argue that most research on the neural basis of conscious perception has come from vision, raising questions about generalizability. They discuss the functional role of the auditory system, identify phenomena that a theory of conscious auditory perception must explain, survey candidate neural correlates from existing literature, and consider implications for a general theory of conscious perception. Outstanding questions and recommended approaches and techniques for addressing them are also presented.