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Prof. Silvia’s major research interest concerns the study of perception and awareness in healthy participants and brain-damaged patients with visual field defects or neglect. In her research, she uses several techniques: behavior, electrophysiology (EEG), neuroimaging (fNIRS) and direct brain stimulation (TMS and intraoperative electrocortical mapping).In this talk she will discuss about the techniques in the measurement of visual perceptual awareness (yes/no conscious vs perceptual awareness scale paradigms) and its electrophysiological index.