title: Consciousness and cerebral baseline activity fluctuations.
abstract: The origin of within-subject variability in perceptual experiments is poorly understood. We here review evidence that baseline brain activity in the areas involved in sensory perception predict subsequent variations in sensory awareness. We place these findings in light of recent findings on the architecture of spontaneous BOLD fluctuations in the awake human brain, and discuss the possible origins of the observed baseline brain activity fluctuations.
authors.affiliation: Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. mboly@student.ulg.ac.be
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boly
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: Evelyne
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Balteau
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schnakers
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Degueldre
authors.forename: Gustave
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Moonen
authors.forename: Andre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Luxen
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Peigneux
authors.forename: Marie-Elisabeth
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Faymonville
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maquet
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Laureys
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging