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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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When Attended and Conscious Perception Deactivates Fronto-Parietal Regions
Ausaf A. Farooqui,Tom Manly +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that conscious and attended perception when delinked from goals does not increase fronto-parietal activity, and when inconsequential for the goal may even deactivate these regions if the percept is incsequential for goal completion.
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Lifelong Learning as the Future Human Need
TL;DR: In this article, the authors give a brief review of studies in the field of the neuroscience of consciousness in order to prove the following key point of the future human image: lifelong learning is the posthuman need.
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A new empirical challenge for local theories of consciousness
TL;DR: It is argued that adopting this strong version of the “overflow hypothesis” would have the effect of nullifying the weight of the evidence taken to support local theories of consciousness in the first place.
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Imagery and overflow: We see more than we report
TL;DR: The question of whether our conscious experience is rich or sparse remains an enduring controversy in philosophy as discussed by the authors, and the "overflow" account argues that perceptual consciousness is far richer than cogn...
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A relational approach to consciousness: categories of level and contents of consciousness.
TL;DR: In this paper, the Yoneda lemma is used to characterize and eventually define, consciousness through exhaustive descriptions of consciousness' relationships to all other consciousness, and several possible definitions of categories of consciousness are proposed.
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The Neural Basis of Decision Making
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