Consciousness and sleep
Experience, dreams, and the roles of sleep: connected subjects with distinct questions and evidence.
4 problemsConscious experience
Subjective experience, perception, and their relation to the brain.
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9 totalConsciousness
You can recognize a strawberry’s color and say “red.” How does that processing relate to the way red appears to you?
Dreaming
A sleeping mind can build vivid worlds. Do those experiences perform a function, reflect other useful processes, or do both?
Perceptual binding
Vision assigns colors, shapes, and movements to objects. How do distributed neural representations support those assignments without mixing features from different objects?
Sound–touch synesthesia
For some people, sounds consistently evoke localized touch sensations. What creates that unusually strong link between hearing and touch?
Binocular rivalry
When the eyes receive incompatible images, perception can alternate between them. How do eye and pattern competition produce those switches?
Aphantasia
Some people cannot voluntarily picture a scene. Which neural differences explain lifelong absence of visual imagery?