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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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The Consciousness Theories Studies (ConTraSt) database: analyzing and comparing empirical studies of consciousness theories
Itay Yaron,Liad Mudrik +1 more
TL;DR: This paper provided a bird's eye view on studies that interpreted their findings in light of at least one of four leading neuroscientific theories of consciousness (N=412 experiments), asking how methodological choices of the researchers might affect the final conclusions.
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Visible propagation from invisible exogenous cueing.
Zhicheng Lin,Scott O. Murray +1 more
TL;DR: Unconscious mobile cueing effects embody a simultaneous dissociation and association of attention and consciousness, in which exogenous attention can occur without cue awareness, yet at the same time its effect is contingent on conscious motion tracking ("association"), and underscore the interaction of conscious and unconscious processing.
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What Might Interoceptive Inference Reveal about Consciousness
TL;DR: The mainstream science of consciousness offers a few predominate views of how the brain gives rise to awareness, including Higher-Order Thought Theory, Global Neuronal Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, and hybrids thereof as discussed by the authors.
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Parallel and functionally segregated processing of task phase and conscious content in the prefrontal cortex.
Vishal Kapoor,Vishal Kapoor,Michel Besserve,Nikos K. Logothetis,Nikos K. Logothetis,Theofanis I Panagiotaropoulos,Theofanis I Panagiotaropoulos +6 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that neurons exhibiting task-phase related activity operate in the LPFC concurrently with, but segregated from neurons representing conscious content during a no-report task involving perceptual suppression.
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Do Artificial Reinforcement-Learning Agents Matter Morally?
TL;DR: It is argued that present-day artificial RL agents have a very small but nonzero degree of ethical importance, particularly plausible for views according to which sentience comes in degrees based on the abilities and complexities of minds, but even binary views on consciousness should assign nonzero probability to RL programs having morally relevant experiences.
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The Neural Basis of Decision Making
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