“…To date, 34 VS and other non-responsive patients with a disorder of consciousness (DOC) have demonstrated covert command following (CF) in motor imagery (MI) tasks with EEG (Cruse et al, 2011 , 2012a ; Gibson et al, 2014 ; Horki et al, 2014 ; Coyle et al, 2015 ), or fMRI (Owen et al, 2006 ; Monti et al, 2010 ; Bardin et al, 2011 ; Fernández-Espejo and Owen, 2013 ; Forgacs et al, 2014 ; Gibson et al, 2014 ). Subsequent studies have used selective visual or auditory attention (Schnakers et al, 2008 ; Lulé et al, 2013 ; Naci and Owen, 2013 ; Monti et al, 2014 ; Pan et al, 2014 ), as well as attempted movements (Bekinschtein et al, 2011 ; Cruse et al, 2012b ; Horki et al, 2014 ) to reveal covert awareness in 34 more patients.…”