Karina Tolentino-Bazán, Tatiana Chavez-Heres, Mariana Morales-García, Salvador Israel Macías-Hernández, Alma Citlallic Ramírez-Ramírez, Ana Esthela Velázquez-Bustamante, Gerald Martin Rhoades-Torres, Mario Velez-Palafox
Predictive Factors for Returning to Work in Burn Adult Patients That Were Working Before Their Injury
Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association
prompted reports recall spontaneous conscious experiences collected noinput notask noresponse paradigm 30 random prompts 13 healthy volunteers mentation reports classified visual imagery abstract thought spontaneous 19channel brain electric activity eeg continuously recorded viewed series momentary spatial distributions maps brain electric field segmented microstates ie time segments characterized quasistable landscapes potential distribution maps showed varying durations subsecond range microstate segmentation used datadriven strategy different microstates ie different brain electric landscapes must generated activity different neural assemblies therefore hypothesized constitute different functions two types reported experiences associated significantly different microstates mean duration 121 ms immediately preceding prompts microstates showed across subjects abstract thought compared visual imagery shift electric gravity center left clockwise rotation field axis contrariwise microstates 2 prompt differ two types experiences results support hypothesis different microstates brain recognized electric field implement different conscious reportable mind states ie different classes types thoughts mentations thus microstates might candidates atoms thought