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Consciousness weaves our internal view of the outside world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2016

Moshe Gur
Moshe Gur*
Affiliation:
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel. mogi@bm.technion.ac.ilwww.bm.technion.ac.il/~mogi
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Abstract

Low-level consciousness is fundamental to our understanding of the world. Within the conscious field, the constantly changing external visual information is transformed into stable, object-based percepts. Remarkably, holistic objects are perceived while we are cognizant of all of the spatial details comprising the objects and of the relationship between individual elements. This parallel conscious association is unique to the brain. Conscious contributions to motor activity come after our understanding of the world has been established.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e179
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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