Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Intuitive Behind Playing Tennis
The act of imagining yourself playing tennis will activate parts of your brain that have to do with motar behaviour. In about 20% of patients who we think, or who appear unconscious at the bedside, actually they can do things with their brain. This leaves us in this slightly uncertain position where tests that we thought were so good at understanding if somebody is conscious or not, are still very good but have this little gray area.
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