Nicolo' Zuddas
Exploring different stages of consciousness using a temporal analysis of EEG signals.
Rel. Federica Marcolin, Elena Carlotta Olivetti, Alessia Celeghin. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2025
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The concepts of consciousness and unconsciousness, and their respective stages, are of particular interest in the domain of neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. This study aims to investigate the brain's response to visual stimuli, with a specific focus on differentiating between conscious perception and the subliminal and preconscious stages of unconscious perception. The study used two experimental paradigms to test three hypotheses, evaluating the predictions of the Global Neural Workspace Theory (GNWT) regarding the spread of cerebral activation during information processing. The research aimed to analyse the VAN and P300 waves as indicators of visual stimulus perception and neural correlates of consciousness, as well as exploring additional non-conventional EEG parameters as potential consciousness indicators.
A total of 66 subjects participated in the experiment, which comprised three blocks of an inattentional blindness paradigm and two blocks of a visual masking paradigm
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