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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2018

Neuroscience: The Key to Consciousness May Not Be under the Streetlight.

J D Knotts, Brian Odegaard, Hakwan Lau

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Metacognition as a window into subjective affective experience.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

J D KnottsDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: jeffreydknotts@gmail.com.
Brian OdegaardDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Hakwan LauDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Key theories of consciousness predict that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays important roles, but there has been relatively little causal evidence showing that manipulation of activity in the region can broadly affect conscious experiences. A new study provides crucial findings to help resolve this issue, showing that direct pharmacological stimulation of PFC restores wakefulness in anesthetized rats.

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ConsciousnessNeurosciencesAnimalsParietal LobePrefrontal CortexRatsWakefulness

Identifiers

PMID29990459
OpenAlexW2877349738

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.