Breakdown of the brain’s functional network modularity with awareness

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 112; no. 12; pp. 3799 - 3804
• Main Authors: Godwin, Douglass, Barry, Robert L., Marois, René
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 24.03.2015; National Acad Sciences
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Algorithms; Awareness; Behavior; Biological Sciences; brain; Brain Mapping - methods; Brain research; Consciousness; Female; Graph theory; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Models, Neurological; Models, Statistical; Nerve Net; Neurobiology; neurophysiology; Neurosciences; philosophy; psychology; Theoretical analysis; Young Adult; functional connectivity; awareness; consciousness; graph theory

Significance How the brain begets conscious awareness has been one of the most fundamental and elusive problems in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Correspondingly, this problem has spawned a remarkably large number of theories that differ by the proposed extent of cortical and subcortical...