ReviewThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2017
Are the Neural Correlates of Consciousness in the Front or in the Back of the Cerebral Cortex? Clinical and Neuroimaging Evidence.
Review in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 227 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Thalamus and consciousness: a systematic review on thalamic nuclei associated with consciousness.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Neural bases of the bodily self as revealed by electrical brain stimulation: A systematic review.Human brain mapping · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation for patients with disorders of consciousness: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
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- Atlas of intracranial electroencephalography complexity across cortical regions and global states of consciousness in the human brain.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2026Review
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- A data-driven approach to identifying and evaluating connectivity-based neural correlates of conscious visual perception.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Stimulus duration modulates awareness-dependent brain activation in the fusiform gyrus independently of task-relevance.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Multidimensional EEG mechanisms and explainable prediction of responsiveness to posterior parietal HD-tDCS in chronic disorders of consciousness.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Intrinsic units: identifying a system's causal grain.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Mapping the structure of neural states associated with conscious experience.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
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Abstract
The role of the frontal cortex in consciousness remains a matter of debate. In this Perspective, we will critically review the clinical and neuroimaging evidence for the involvement of the front versus the back of the cortex in specifying conscious contents and discuss promising research avenues.
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