Importance of bidirectionality for consciousness (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Importance of bidirectionality for consciousness

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It has been suggested that the part of the brain network supporting consciousness brain regions should be bidirectionally connected because both feed-forward and feedback processes are necessary for conscious experience. For example, previous studies examining visual perception have shown that conscious perception does not arise when there is only feed-forward processing, whereas it arises when there is feedback as well as feed-forward processing.

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©2022 Jun Kitazono

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