This opinion/review piece examines what noninvasive human neuroimaging studies of neural replay can reveal, critiquing the field's tendency to align findings with rodent models while implicitly assuming replay is tied to conscious, deliberate thought.
The authors argue that the assumed link between replay and conscious thought in human research is largely untested and represents a missed opportunity to study replay's relationship with consciousness and cross-species differences.
This is a theoretical/opinion piece without original empirical data, so claims about replay and consciousness remain speculative and are not directly tested here.
