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Empirical support for higher-order theories of conscious awareness
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This work defends the higher-order view against several major criticisms, such as prefrontal activity reflects attention but not awareness, and prefrontal lesion does not abolish awareness.About:
This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 580 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Electromagnetic theories of consciousness & Empirical research.read more
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Are we underestimating the richness of visual experience
TL;DR: To properly estimate perceptual content, experimentalists must move beyond the limitations of binary alternative-forced choice procedures and analyze reports of experience more broadly and open their eyes to the true richness of experience and to its neuronal substrates.
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Higher-order awareness, misrepresentation and function.
TL;DR: It is argued that, although both consciousness and metacognition involve higher-order psychological states, they have little more in common and there is unlikely that there is much, if any, utility to mental states' being conscious over and above the utility those states have when they are not conscious.
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Putting the “mental” back in “mental disorders”: a perspective from research on fear and anxiety
TL;DR: The subjective experience of the patient reported during a clinical interview is often viewed as a weak correlate of psychopathology and to the extent that subjective symptoms are related to the underlying problem, it is often assumed that they will be taken care of if the more objective behavioral and physiological symptoms are properly treated as discussed by the authors .
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A comparison between a visual analogue scale and a four point scale as measures of conscious experience of motion.
TL;DR: The visual analogue scale was more efficient in predicting discrimination error but this effect was mediated by longer report times and was no longer observed when the VAS was discretized into four bins, consistent with the interpretation that VAS and discrete scales are associated with a comparable degree of metacognitive sensitivity, although the Vas provides a greater amount of information.
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If perception is probabilistic, why does it not seem probabilistic?
TL;DR: The best Bayesian approach to this problem does not require probabilistic representation, and the standard solution in terms of sampling runs into the problem that sampling is an account of perceptual decision rather than perception.
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