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Nature Neuroscience 10, 140 - 141 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0207-140

Betting the house on consciousness

Christof Koch1 & Kerstin Preuschoff1

  1. 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


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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