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Consciousness Science: Past, present and future

What is the current state of the science of consciousness? In this editorial, Annti Revonsuo shares his view on this matter, that consciousness science should strive to become more unified.

Motion induced blindness in normal subjects

Even if you fix your gaze at one of these yellow dots, it will eventually disappear! A newly uncovered visual illusion poses problems for theories of conscious vision.

Touching what is out there

The conscious sensation of touch is felt at the location of the tactile stimulus: we feel the key or the pen that we pick up at our fingertips rather than in the brain where the sensory signals end up.

What you don't see now will affect what you see next

Even if you do not see the fine graitings on a screen, it might cause alterations to how you experience a stimulus afterwards. 

Nonconscious goals and mysterious moods 

Are you in control of your faculties? When you suddenly are in a bad mood, do you really know why?

A breakthrough in testing unconsciousness during surgery?

So you thought that research in consciousness did not have any practical applications? Now, researchers are monitoring your level of consciousness during deep anesthesia.