ERC Starting Grant · 2025
The unconscious brain’s ability to detect and identify stimuli is essential for our and our loved ones’ survival. For example, recognizing the smell of a fire or our baby's cry. What determines if and how the unconscious brain processes and reacts to information from the environment? As consciousness level diminishes (e.g., during sleep or following brain injury), slow wave activity (SWA) increases, weakening the input-output relationship and increasing response variability. Surprisingly, no study to date has adopted a variability-based approach to responsiveness, seeking common principles that persist across the spectrum of consciousness in both health and disease. DynamiConsciousness…
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