Betting the house on consciousness

被引:48
作者
Koch, Christof [1 ]
Preuschoff, Kerstin
机构
[1] CALTECH, Div Biol, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] CALTECH, Div Engn & Appl Sci, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[3] CALTECH, Div Humanities & Social Sci, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
关键词
BLINDSIGHT;
D O I
10.1038/nn0207-140
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Studying consciousness is difficult because asking subjects to report their awareness of a stimulus perturbs that awareness. A new paper shows that asking subjects to wager on whether their response is correct can solve this problem.
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页码:140 / 141
页数:3
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