Systems Brain Science

The neural correlates of qualia is one of the most important research issues in cognitive neuroscience today. Qualia lie at the heart of the human experience, as well as at the core of the interface between the massively parallel sensory processing and serial motor processing. Qualia are relevant to various aspects of cognition, including sensorimotor coordination, multimodal binding, time in neural coding, grammar and semantics in language, learning after one exposure, creativity, body image, theory of mind, and communication. We investigate the system-level properties of the brain that generate qualia using psychophysics, noninvasive measurements (MEG and fMRI), simulation, and theory.