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Topic: frontal regions

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In Cognition and Cognitive Psychology

Seminar · Consciousness

Assessing consciousness in human infants

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz · CNRS

Mon, Jan 25, 2021 · 11:00 UTC

In a few months, human infants develop complex capacities in numerous cognitive domains. They learn their native language, recognize their parents, refine their numerical capacities and their perception of the world around them but are they conscious and how can we study consciousness when no verbal report is possible? One way to approach this question is to rely on the neural responses correlated with conscious perception in adults (i.e. a global increase of activity in notably frontal regions with top-down amplification of the sensory levels). We can thus study at what age the developing ana