VISUAL AWARENESS OF OBJECTS CORRELATES WITH ACTIVITY OF RIGHT OCCIPITAL CORTEX

IN the search for human neural correlates of visual awareness, cortica l magnetic responses to coherent and meaningful objects were compared with responses to disorganized and meaningless non-objects when observ ers tried to detect the coherent objects. Three brief stimulus duratio ns were included to vary the detection rate of the objects. Of the mul tiple brain regions activated, only the right lateral occipital cortex showed signals correlating with the proportion of correct object dete ctions. The results suggest an important role for this area in visual awareness of objects.