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Consciousness. Seeing activity in the temporal cortex in response to hearing once name would be indication of what conscious state?

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6 Seeing activity in the temporal cortex in response to hearing once name would be indication of what conscious state?

7 Vegetative State or Minimally Conscious State

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10 A GOOD DIAGNOSTIC TOOL?? WHY?

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12 Change blindness vs. awareness

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16 QUESTION WHO WOULD YOU DETERMINE IF A PERSON IS IN A LOCKED IN STATE VS A VEGETATIVE STATE? A person in a vegetative state can only detect local changes while a person in locked in syndrome can detect both local and global changes

17 QUESTION WHAT IS THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PATIENT THAT IS BRAIN DEAD AND PATIENT THAT IS IN A COMA? Someone that are brain-dead does not have any electrical responses such as reflexes

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