Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness: Spontaneous Awakening and Recovery of Psychomotor Performance

EasyChair Preprint 4650

Abstract

We developed an experimental model that allows research of consciousness level and contents and its neural correlates during spontaneous awakening. Psychomotor test used in our studies includes simultaneous counting and button pressings and allows to assess several fallings asleep and awakenings during one hour. It gives the researcher several episodes of “micro-sleep” and the following consciousness activation. EEG recordings gives accurate information about sleep depth, awakening moments and brain activity during activation. Test performance in its turn gives information about activation level and whether it was high enough to perform rather complicated instruction correctly after awakening episode, i.e. subject’s consciousness contents.

Keyphrases: Consciousness, Neural correlates, awakening, contents, levels, microsleep, psychomotor test, sleep-wake paradigm

@booklet{EasyChair:4650,
  author    = {Vladimir Dorokhov and Olga Tkachenko and Vadim Ushakov and Alexander Chernorizov},
  title     = {Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness: Spontaneous Awakening and Recovery of Psychomotor Performance},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 4650},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}