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Lookup NU author(s): Daniel Collerton, Emeritus Professor Elaine Perry
Merker's core idea, that the experience of being conscious reflects the interactions of actions, targets, and motivations in the upper brainstem, with cortex providing the content of the conscious experience, merits serious consideration. However, we have two areas of concern: first, that his definition of consciousness is so broad that it is difficult to find any organisms with a brain that could be non-conscious; second, that the focus on one cortical - subcortical system neglects other systems (e.g., basal forebrain and brainstem cholinergic systems and their cortical and thalainic target areas) which may be of at least equal significance.
Author(s): Collerton D, Perry E
Publication type: Editorial
Publication status: Published
Journal: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year: 2007
Volume: 30
Issue: 1
Pages: 88-89
ISSN (print): 0140-525X
ISSN (electronic): 1469-1825
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X07000969
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X07000969