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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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Visual anticipation biases conscious decision making but not bottom-up visual processing.
TL;DR: The results suggest that the brain employs multiple parallel mechanism at different levels of perceptual processing in order to shape effective sensory consciousness within a predicted perceptual scene and support the hypothesis that consciousness provides a time-delayed description of a task that is used to prospectively optimize real time control structures.
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Awareness in severe Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review
N J O'Shaughnessy,Justin Chan,Rahul Bhome,P Gallagher,H Zhang,H Zhang,Linda Clare,Elizabeth L Sampson,Patrick Stone,Jonathan Huntley +9 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that lower level sensory awareness is relatively maintained in severe AD, and adaptation of the environment has the potential to facilitate the expression of awareness while education of caregivers may increase understanding of people with severe AD and potentially improve the quality of care that is received.
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Knowing Blue: Early Buddhist Accounts of Non-Conceptual Sense
TL;DR: In post-Digna Buddhist epistemology, non-conceptual cognition (nirvikalpajñāna) comes to be construed as a sort of pre-reflective and self-intimating feature of all states of cognition as mentioned in this paper.
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Diffusion property and functional connectivity of superior longitudinal fasciculus underpin human metacognition.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to investigate whether metacognition in different cognitive domains rely on common or distinct neural substrates with combined DTI and functional MRI techniques.
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Consciousness as a concrete physical phenomenon.
TL;DR: It is proposed that the epistemic gap between an experience and a scientific model of its neural mechanisms stems from the fact that the model is merely a theoretical construct based on observations, distinct from the concrete phenomenon it models, namely the experience itself.
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The Neural Basis of Decision Making
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