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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.
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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.

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Neurobiology of Consciousness: Current Research and Perspectives

TL;DR: In this paper, the main problems of discrepancy between neurobiological research and philosophical perspective are discussed, as well as the problems of working memory, attention, self, and disorders of consciousness.
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Emotional Metacognition: Stimulus Valence Modulates Cardiac Arousal and Metamemory

TL;DR: Both recognition memory and metacognition are influenced by the emotional contents of encoded items and that this correlation is in part related to cardiac activity, indicating a robust effect of negative valence on physiological arousal during recognition memory.
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Reflexive theories of consciousness and unconscious perception

TL;DR: The reflexive theory of consciousness cannot partake in this argument and therefore must rely on at least one of the other arguments for the necessity claim as discussed by the authors, which are significantly less convincing than the argument from unconscious perception.
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Dissociating the Neural Correlates of Subjective Visibility from Those of Decision Confidence

TL;DR: This paper showed that prefrontal representations of subjective visibility are contaminated by neural correlates of decision confidence, and proposed a new analysis method to control for these metacognitive aspects of awareness reports, and use it to reveal confidence-independent correlates of perceptual judgments in a subset of prefrontal areas.
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The neural substrates of non-conscious working memory

TL;DR: This work has shown that not only is it possible to be conscious of a fraction of all the neural activity underlying the authors' thoughts and behavior, but also how this activity affects their decision-making.
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Signal detection theory and psychophysics

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.
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