How the brain transitions from conscious to subliminal perception Journal Article
| Authors: | Arese Lucini, F.; Del Ferraro, G.; Sigman, M.; Makse, H. A. |
| Article Title: | How the brain transitions from conscious to subliminal perception |
| Abstract: | We study the transition in the functional networks that characterize the human brains’ conscious-state to an unconscious subliminal state of perception by using k-core percolation. We find that the most inner core (i.e., the most connected kernel) of the conscious-state functional network corresponds to areas which remain functionally active when the brain transitions from the conscious-state to the subliminal-state. That is, the inner core of the conscious network coincides with the subliminal-state. Mathematical modeling allows to interpret the conscious to subliminal transition as driven by k-core percolation, through which the conscious state is lost by the inactivation of the peripheral k-shells of the conscious functional network. Thus, the inner core and most robust component of the conscious brain corresponds to the unconscious subliminal state. This finding imposes constraints to theoretical models of consciousness, in that the location of the core of the functional brain network is in the unconscious part of the brain rather than in the conscious state as previously thought. © 2019 IBRO |
| Keywords: | brain; perception; human experiment; consciousness; human; article; brain networks; ego development; conscious and subliminal perception; k-core percolation; percolation theory |
| Journal Title: | Neuroscience |
| Volume: | 411 |
| ISSN: | 0306-4522 |
| Publisher: | Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd |
| Date Published: | 2019-07-15 |
| Start Page: | 280 |
| End Page: | 290 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.03.047 |
| PUBMED: | 31051216 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| PMCID: | PMC6612454 |
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| Notes: | Source: Scopus |
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