title: Consciousness weaves our internal view of the outside world.
abstract: Low-level consciousness is fundamental to our understanding of the world. Within the conscious field, the constantly changing external visual information is transformed into stable, object-based percepts. Remarkably, holistic objects are perceived while we are cognizant of all of the spatial details comprising the objects and of the relationship between individual elements. This parallel conscious association is unique to the brain. Conscious contributions to motor activity come after our understanding of the world has been established.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering,Technion,Haifa,32000,Israel.mogi@bm.technion.ac.ilwww.bm.technion.ac.il/~mogi.
authors.forename: Moshe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gur
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans; D014796:Visual Perception