You nailed it. This is a reported piece, so the description could be completely off the mark. But the quote from the neuroscientist is > “What it tells me,”

You nailed it. This is a reported piece, so the description could be completely off the mark. But the quote from the neuroscientist is > “What it tells me,” says Christof Koch, a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute who specializes in consciousness, “is that … you can get dissociation between cognition and consciousness.” which is a wild overintepreretation. Gerstmann syndrome is the same kind of deficit where you have preserved consciousness and severe impairments in one very specific cognitive domain. Aphasia is a more common version of a focal neurological deficit which is equally analogous. This whole article is just pop science nonsense (although it's entirely possible the underlying research has merit; it's not easy to tell based on an article about it).