ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2023
Consciousness in the cradle: on the emergence of infant experience.
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- Can We Talk About Fetal Consciousness?Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Review
- Fetal Pain Perception:Annals of the Child Neurology Society · 2026Review
- The fetus/infant - mother as a co-evolving dyadic system and the development of attachment styles: an active inference perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- A survey of views about infant consciousness.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Phenomenal consciousness: its scope and limits.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- "I Haven't Had Anyone Talk to Me About Phone Use, At All": Primiparous Mothers' Conversations About Smartphone Use While Caregiving.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Evolutionary Trajectories of Consciousness: From Biological Foundations to Technological Horizons.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Rapid Eye Movements in Sleep Furnish a Unique Probe into the Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Development of the Visual Brain: Implications for Autism Research.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Emergence of a synergistic scaffold in the brains of human infants.Communications biology · 2025Article
- The Awakening of the Newborn Human Infant and the Emergence of Consciousness.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025Review
- Markers of consciousness in infants: Towards a 'cluster-based' approach.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025Review
- Infant neuroscience: how to measure brain activity in the youngest minds.Trends in neurosciences · 2024Review
- Mental causation: an evolutionary perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Dendrites contribute to the gradient of intrinsic timescales encompassing cortical and subcortical brain networks.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2024Article
- Development of emergent processes and threshold of consciousness with levels of processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Editorial: Fetal analgesia: a conundrum for the physiologist, a tenet for the surgeon.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Although each of us was once a baby, infant consciousness remains mysterious and there is no received view about when, and in what form, consciousness first emerges. Some theorists defend a 'late-onset' view, suggesting that consciousness requires cognitive capacities which are unlikely to be in place before the child's first birthday at the very earliest. Other theorists defend an 'early-onset' account, suggesting that consciousness is likely to be in place at birth (or shortly after) and may even arise during the third trimester. Progress in this field has been difficult, not just because of the challenges associated with procuring the relevant behavioral and neural data, but also because of uncertainty about how best to study consciousness in the absence of the capacity for verbal report or intentional behavior. This review examines both the empirical and methodological progress in this field, arguing that recent research points in favor of early-onset accounts of the emergence of consciousness.
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