TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of consciousness in the urge-for-action
AU - Rivera-Rei, Álvaro A.
AU - Canales-Johnson, Andrés
AU - Huepe, David
AU - Ibáñez, Agustín
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to: Stephen R. Jackson, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. E-mail: [email protected] This research was supported in part by grants from the Medical Research Council (G0901321), and by the WCU (World Class University) program through the National Research Foundation of South Korea, and funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (R31-10008). We are particularly grateful to two anonymous referees for their helpful comments. SBE acknowledges funding by the Human Brain Project (R01-MH074457-01A1), the DFG (IRTG 1328) and the Helmholtz Initiative on Systems-Biology.
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - A neuroanatomical model of urge-for-action phenomena has been proposed based on the "motivation-for-action" network (e.g., insula and mid-cingulate cortex). Notwithstanding the sound evidence presented regarding the functional and anatomical correlates of this model, the nature of the relationship between urges and conscious awareness remains to be addressed. Moreover, this model does not seem to explain (1) how a conscious access threshold is reached, and (2) the way in which the urges are related to more general contents of consciousness.
AB - A neuroanatomical model of urge-for-action phenomena has been proposed based on the "motivation-for-action" network (e.g., insula and mid-cingulate cortex). Notwithstanding the sound evidence presented regarding the functional and anatomical correlates of this model, the nature of the relationship between urges and conscious awareness remains to be addressed. Moreover, this model does not seem to explain (1) how a conscious access threshold is reached, and (2) the way in which the urges are related to more general contents of consciousness.
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U2 - 10.1080/17588928.2011.618631
DO - 10.1080/17588928.2011.618631
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:84859383985
SN - 1758-8928
VL - 2
SP - 246
EP - 247
JO - Cognitive Neuroscience
JF - Cognitive Neuroscience
IS - 3-4
ER -