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SUMMARY:Decoding consciousness - Geraint Rees\, Institute of Cognitive Neu
 roscience\, University College London
DTSTART:20070626T120000Z
DTEND:20070626T130000Z
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CONTACT:Cordula Becker
DESCRIPTION:Accurate prediction of an individual’s conscious experience 
 based only on measurements of their brain activity would provide strong ev
 idence for a close link between brain and mind. Recent empirical and metho
 dological advances in such ‘brain reading’ have yielded promising find
 ings. Conscious perception of both simple features and complex object cate
 gories can be predicted from characteristic\, distributed activity pattern
 s in human visual cortex. Furthermore\, feature-selective processing can a
 lso be demonstrated for stimuli of which the subject is completely unaware
 . This talk will review recent empirical work from our laboratory and cons
 ider how it contributes to revealing the way in which individual perceptua
 l experiences are encoded in the human brain.
LOCATION:Seminar Room (ground floor)\, Craik-Marshall Building
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