ABSTRACT
Over the past half century, a number of neurophysiological techniques, including electroencephalography and neuron recording, have been used to assess brain functions in awake humans or animals. While these have provided much useful information, they have not yet yielded the critical insights necessary to understand the mechanism of conscious experience. We argue here that this may be due to a general lack of appreciation in the neuroscience community for the importance of dynamic and distributed function in neuronal populations of the brain.
