By Jessica Hamzelo | New Scientist
"A mere glimmer of consciousness is all that's required to learn something new.Experiments inspired by Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov have revealed that some people who are "minimally conscious" can learn to associate a sound with a sensation.This might mean that learning new associations could help patients with consciousness disorders recover. It also suggests that some patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state are in fact minimally conscious, and that the Pavlovian test might be a simpler, more objective way to distinguish between the two."
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