consciousness in the vegetative state?

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Fig. 1. We observed supplementary motor area (SMA) activity during tennis imagery in the patient and a group of 12 healthy volunteers (controls). We detected parahippocampal gyrus (PPA), posterior parietal-lobe (PPC), and lateral premotor cortex (PMC) activity while the patient and the same group of volunteers imagined moving around a house. All results are thesholded at P < 0.05 corrected for multiple comparisons. X values refer to distance in mm from the midline in stereotaxic space (SOM text).

Owen, A. M., Coleman, M. R., Boly, M., Davis, M. H., Laureys, S., & Pickard, J. D. (2006). Detecting awareness in the vegetative state. Science, 313, 1402.




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