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Nature Neuroscience 10, 140 - 141 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0207-140
Betting the house on consciousness
Christof Koch1 & Kerstin Preuschoff1
- Christof Koch is in the Division of Biology and Division of Engineering and Applied Science, and Kerstin Preuschoff is in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, 216-76, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. e-mail: koch@klab.caltech.edu
Abstract
Studying consciousness is difficult because asking subjects to report their awareness of a stimulus perturbs that awareness. A new paper shows that asking subjects to wager on whether their response is correct can solve this problem.
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