Figure 1.

Definition of the NCC. Content-specific NCC (red) directly contribute to phenomenal distinctions (e.g., low-level visual features, faces, or places) within consciousness. The full NCC (orange) is constituted by the union of all the content-specific NCC. Background conditions to the NCC encompass neural processes that enable or modulate the activity of the full NCC and thus influence the level of consciousness (green), including global enabling factors, such as blood flow or oxygen supply, and neuronal activating systems, such as brainstem reticular formation; neural processes that modulate the activity of only some content-specific NCC, including processing loops involving attention or working memory (beige), sensory pathways activating primary sensory cortices (pink), and outputs from the NCC (blue) involved in task-related verbal or motor reports. V1, Primary visual cortex; V2, secondary visual cortex; PPA, parahippocampal place area; M1, primary motor cortex.