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- Title
Unresponsive but Not Necessarily Unconscious: An Introduction to the Special Focus.
- Authors
Martial, Charlotte; Gosseries, Olivia
- Abstract
I Disconnected consciousness i refers to the mental experience of events, in the absence of concurrent awareness of the sensory environment, while in an outwardly unresponsive state (Martial, Cassol, et al., [10]; Sanders et al., [21]). A growing body of evidence from empirical research reveals that humans may be outwardly unresponsive but still experience episodes of disconnected consciousness (e.g., Martial, Cassol, Laureys, & Gosseries, [10]; Darracq et al., [5]; Sanders, Tononi, Laureys, & Sleigh, [21]). More generally, studying states of disconnected consciousness, including how the experience of self may be disturbed or limited and how the process of dissociation operates in such states, is one of the most interesting ways to study the broader construct of human consciousness. If a series of specific prototypical features such as out-of-body experience or seeing a bright light arise during an episode of disconnected consciousness after a life-threatening situation, we may call them I near-death experiences i (Martial, Cassol, et al., [10]; Martial, Simon, et al., [12]).
- Subjects
HYPNOTISM; COGNITIVE neuroscience; DREAMS; SELF-talk; GENDER inequality; MENTAL imagery; MIND-wandering
- Publication
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2023, Vol 35, Issue 9, p1369
- ISSN
0898-929X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/jocn_e_02027