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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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Lessons From Astronomy and Biology for the Mind-Copernican Revolution in Neuroscience.
TL;DR: This work lends empirical support to the world-brain relation by converging it with Karl Friston’s free energy principle that provides a neuro-ecological and therefore post-Copernican view of the brain.
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Redécouvrir la conscience par le rêve : le débat entre théories cognitives et théories non cognitives de la conscience à l’épreuve de la recherche sur le rêve
TL;DR: Dehaene et al. as mentioned in this paper define the notion of conscience as "experience consciente, or conscience phenomenale" which deborde l’acces cognitif du sujet.
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The collapse argument
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that mentalistic First-Order theories, once fully cashed out, collapse into some form of Higher-Order theory, and that the four most prominent mentalistic "First-Order" theories are, in fact, higher-order theories in disguise.
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Accessing the mind: relating metacognition to attention, memory, and cognitive function
TL;DR: This thesis includes several empirical studies that investigate how metacognition relates to consciousness but also important brain functions including attention and memory in healthy and clinical populations.
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Neuroscience of the yogic theory of consciousness
TL;DR: The yogic theory of consciousness (YTC), a cohesive theory that can model both external modulations and internal states of the mind, is formulated and it is proposed that attention, sleep and mind wandering should be understood as unique modulatory states ofThe mind.
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Signal detection theory and psychophysics
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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.