Consciousness and cerebral baseline activity fluctuations

[en] The origin of within-subject variability in perceptual experiments is poorly understood. We here review evidence that baseline brain activity in the areas involved in sensory perception predict subsequent variations in sensory awareness. We place these ﬁndings in light of recent ﬁndings on the architecture of spontaneous BOLD ﬂuctuations in the awake human brain, and discuss the possible origins of the observed baseline brain activity ﬂuctuations.

Disciplines :

Neurosciences & behavior

Author, co-author :

Boly, Mélanie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Neurologie

Phillips, Christophe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron

Balteau, Evelyne ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron

Schnakers, Caroline ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron

Degueldre, Christian ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron

Moonen, Gustave ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Neurologie - Doyen de la Faculté de Médecine

Luxen, André ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Chimie organique de synthèse - Centre de recherches du cyclotron

Peigneux, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron

Faymonville, Marie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Anesthésie et réanimation

Maquet, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron - Département des sciences cliniques

Laureys, Steven ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron - Département des sciences cliniques

Language :

English

Title :

Consciousness and cerebral baseline activity fluctuations

Publication date :

2008

Journal title :

Human Brain Mapping

ISSN :

1065-9471

eISSN :

1097-0193

Publisher :

Wiley Liss, Inc., New York, United States - New York

Volume :

Pages :

868-874

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