No-Report Paradigms: Extracting the True Neural Correlates of Consciousness
Trends in Cognitive Sciences November 13, 2015 Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Melanie Wilke, Stefan Frässle et al. 567 citations
The search for the neural basis of consciousness has been biased by the requirement that subjects report their experiences. Recent no-report paradigms aim to study conscious experience without any report, dissociating neural activity that gives rise to consciousness from activity that enables reporting. The advantages and disadvantages of both report-based and no-report approaches are discussed, and the authors ask how combining these methods can bring us closer to understanding the true neural basis of consciousness.