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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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An Information-Based Approach to Consciousness: Mental State Decoding
TL;DR: This work found no role of the prefrontal cortex in encoding sensory experiences at all, and suggests that prefrontal cortical regions may be relevant in making decisions about sensory features, without exhibiting a re-representation of sensory information.
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On the link between conscious function and general intelligence in humans and machines
TL;DR: This work examines the cognitive abilities associated with three contemporary theories of conscious function: Global Workspace Theory (GWT), Information Generation Theory (IGT), and Attention Schema Theory (AST) to propose ways in which insights from each of the three theories may be combined into a unified model.
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Unconscious categorization of sub-millisecond complex images
Arnaud Beauny,Adélaïde de Heering,Santiago Muñoz Moldes,Jean-Rémy Martin,Albert De Beir,Axel Cleeremans +5 more
TL;DR: Objective categorization performance, here assumed to reflect the contribution of both conscious and unconscious trials, cannot be explained based exclusively on conscious trials and clearly suggests that the categorization of complex visual scenes is possible even when participants report being unable to consciously perceive the contents of the stimulus.
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Physiological Responses to a Haunted-House Threat Experience: Distinct Tonic and Phasic Effects
TL;DR: Electrodermal activity was measured in 156 adults while they participated in small groups in a 30-min haunted-house experience involving various immersive threats to demonstrate the relevance of social dynamics (friends vs. strangers) for tonic arousal and subjective fear and threat predictability for phasic arousal.
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Dissociating the neural correlates of subjective visibility from those of decision confidence
TL;DR: This paper showed that posterior medial frontal cortex encoded stimulus visibility over and above decision confidence and reported that stimulus identity was best decoded from the visual cortex, whereas stimulus visibility (presence vs. absence) was best encoded from prefrontal regions.
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