The Fundamental Problem with No-Cognition Paradigms

Published on January 29, 2020

A central controversy in consciousness science concerns whether the neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs) exclusively reside posterior to the central sulcus or also include frontal regions [1–4]. In a recent Trends in Cognitive Sciences article, Block [5] contends that popular ‘no-report’ paradigms [6,7] cannot settle this dispute, since absence of report is consistent with extensive private cognition. To make progress, we instead require a ‘no-cognition’ (or more precisely, ‘no-post‐perceptual cognition’) paradigm.

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