How Can We Detect Consciousness in Infants?
Talkat Understanding Higher-Level Intelligence from AI, Psychology, and Neuroscience Perspectives · 2024-06-24..06-28
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Argument claims newborns and late-term fetuses already show neural and behavioral signatures consistent with conscious perception. Evidence uses adapted EEG/MEG oddball paradigms that elicit a global-local oddball (P300/P3b) response in three‑month‑olds, newborns and at ~35 weeks gestation, heart‑rate variability to index wakefulness, infant fMRI showing functional anti‑correlation (default mode vs external network), and masking/temporal tasks revealing attentional blink susceptibility in infants (five months, slower P400/P600). Results support early emergence but remain suggestive, not definitive.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Infant consciousness detection
- 1:05When consciousness emerges
- 3:45Phenomenal consciousness in newborns
- 5:35Inferring consciousness in infants
- 8:08Detecting infant consciousness
- 9:39Neural markers in infants
- 14:14Awareness vs consciousness
- 15:25Global oddball paradigm
- 19:50Oddball response in infants
- 22:05Functional connectivity in infants
- 25:15Attentional blink in infants
- 31:01Fetal consciousness development
- 33:41Oddball response in fetuses
- 36:14Conclusion on infant consciousness