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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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Combining Functional and Structural Connectivity: A Preliminary Model for Healthy Volunteers and the Network Dynamics of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness
TL;DR: This thesis identified and addressed four problems of network analyses: 1) arbitrary enforcing of network density, 2) network measures are not independent of each-other with three studies, 3) failure to account for structural information in shaping functional networks, and 4) network dynamics -- estimating network change over time.
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Neural mechanisms underlying conscious and unconscious vision. Evidence from event-related potentials and transcranial magnetic stimulation
TL;DR: The results support the view that when early visual cortical processing is disturbed so that subjects fail to consciously perceive visual stimuli, they may nevertheless guess the location where the visual stimuli were presented, and suggest that in a similar situation, early visual cortex is necessary for both conscious and unconscious perception of chromatic information.
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Why Psychotropic Drugs Don't Cure Mental Illness-But Should They?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the implications of more coherently integrating neuroscientific research and clinical practice for more effectively addressing the challenges of understanding and treating mental illness, and discuss how factors such as the role of language, the creation of personal narratives, and how factors like these interface with underlying biological diatheses in mental illness.
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The Computer and the Brain. By J. Von Neumann. Pp. 82. 24s. 1958. (Yale University Press; Oxford University Press, London)
TL;DR: A deeper mathematical study of the nervous system --"mathematical" in the sense outlined above--- will affect the understanding of the aspects of mathematics itself that are involved, and may alter the way in which the authors look on mathematics and logics proper.
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Consciousness explained or described?
Aaron Schurger,M Graziano +1 more
TL;DR: This paper challenges whether or not any modern accounts of consciousness are in fact theories at all and argues that at least one modern account of consciousness, attention schema theory, goes beyond describing consciousness-related brain activity and qualifies as an explanatory theory.
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Signal detection theory and psychophysics
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What is it like to be a bat
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The Cognitive Neurosciences
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The Neural Basis of Decision Making
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