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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.
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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.

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Crowding and the architecture of the visual system

Adrien Doerig
TL;DR: A large number of models are tested with a database of forty stimuli tailored for the global aspects of crowding and the results show that incorporating grouping like components strongly improves model performance.
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Does conflict control occur without awareness? Evidence from an ERP study

TL;DR: The LPC findings suggest that stimulus- and response-related conflict resolution can occur in the absence of awareness; furthermore, unconscious conflict resolution might involve a weaker cognitive control network compared to conscious conflict resolution.
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Unconscious perceptual justification

TL;DR: It is concluded that unconscious perceptual justification is quite plausible, and it is mysterious why only conscious states are justificatory.
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When Actions Feel Alien—an Explanatory Model

TL;DR: In this article, an explanatory framework for explaining these alienation experiences, a framework that also attempts to explain the "mental glue" whereby self is bound to body, mind, or action.
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Signal detection theory and psychophysics

TL;DR: This book discusses statistical decision theory and sensory processes in signal detection theory and psychophysics and describes how these processes affect decision-making.
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What is it like to be a bat

TL;DR: Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable as mentioned in this paper, which is why current discussions of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong.
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The Cognitive Neurosciences

TL;DR: The fourth edition of The Cognitive Neurosciences continues to chart new directions in the study of the biologic underpinnings of complex cognition -the relationship between the structural and physiological mechanisms of the nervous system and the psychological reality of the mind as discussed by the authors.
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The Neural Basis of Decision Making

TL;DR: This work focuses on simple decisions that can be studied in the laboratory but emphasize general principles likely to extend to other settings, including deliberation and commitment.
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