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A new research conducted by the Tel Aviv University has identified and measured neural activity associated with a new
conscious experience. Even to this day,it is a mystery to the world of Neuroscience which areas of the brain take part in
making us conscious and experience the world from a subjective perspective. This intrigued me to choose this article as
the study has provided a rare glimpse into human consciousness.

Concepts:

Conscious experience is private and inaccessible to observers. Thus, it is mostly studied through subjective reports of
experiences or indirect measures of brain activity such as EEG and f MRI. However, the significance of this study is that
the researchers have surgically implanted electrodes in the brains of patients with epilepsy to determine precise areas
of the brain responsible for their seizures.  Then the patients were monitored for weeks by means of brain activity
recorded by the implanted electrodes. The significance of these electrodes are that they record activities of individual
neurons in their vicinity. The research talks about "Binocular Rivalry" in which the brain cannot combine two different
images shown to each eye. The researchers have also found that the subjects reported a change in perception two seconds
after change in frontal lobe neuron activity and one second after medial temporal lobe neuron activity. Page 152 of
chapter five in our textbook talks about a similar concept. It mentions that individuals deprived of binocular vision have
trouble perceiving depth.

Assumptions:

I barely had any assumptions about human consciousness as it has always been a mystery concept to me. My perception on
consciousness were mainly spiritual and I viewed consciousness as something cosmic and something that came from divine.
However, this study has slightly changed my view on consciousness from purely spiritual to something physical such as
electrical impulses in neurons influenced by change in perception.

Implications:

The positive implications of this study is that it has incorporated medical feats to gain access to minute individual
neuron activity. The study has helped us gain an idea of how conscious precepts are formed and helped researchers find
ways to provide clinical care by alleviating severe epilepsy in patients.

Questions:
Even though this study is a brand new feat in the field of neuroscience, it has left so many questions unanswered about
human consciousness. Even though the study talks about consciousness and visual perception, consciousness through other senses are unexplained. Phenomenon such as intuition, guilt are unaddressed.

 Citation:
American Friends of Tel Aviv University. (2018, June 13). Neuronal activity sheds light on the origin of consciousness: Electrodes in patients with epilepsy register neuronal activity underlying emergence of conscious experience, Tel Aviv University researchers say. ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 10, 2018 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180613113751.htm

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