Are coma patients still able of cognition and emotion
and to what extend? Such questions can be
investigated with auditory Event-Related Potentials
(ERPs) and Skin Conductance Response (SCR). Cognitive
functions were tested with several paradigms in 44
coma patients and emotional response in fifteen of
them. In at least 7 % (N=44) of these patients an
explicit semantic processing and thus a minimal
remaining consciousness could not be excluded. This
study is the first to demonstrate semantic processing
in coma. We found a correlation between emotional SCR
and level of consciousness as...