Neural “Ignition”: Enhanced Activation Linked to Perceptual Awareness in Human Ventral Stream Visual Cortex

By L. Fisch, E. Privman, Michal Ramot, M. Harel, Yuval Nir, S. Kipervasser, F. Andelman, M. Neufeld, U. Kramer, Itzhak Fried and 1 more. 2009

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Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: A narrative review of human intracranial research (2025, unknown): “…own research on NCCs and supplemented by a bibliographic search based on screening the citations of two leading early publications in the field ( Fisch et al., 2009 ; Gaillard et al., 2009 ; search performed on April 16, 2025) as well as screening of all the records using intracranial EEG on…”
The neural activity of auditory conscious perception (2025, unknown): “Our previous work from (Herman et al., 2019) proposed a “switch and wave” framework of conscious perception which expanded upon “ignition” concepts of consciousness, in which widespread brain activity followed a consciously perceived event (Dehaene and Changeux, 2011; Fisch et al., 2009).”
Intracranial neural representation of phenomenal and access consciousness in the human brain (2024, background): “…have also revealed the neural correlates of visual awareness in multiple brain regions; for example, awareness-related activity starts at approximately 200 ms and 300 ms in the medial temporal lobe (Fisch et al., 2009; Reber et al., 2017) and prefrontal cortex (Gaillard et al., 2009), respectively.”