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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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Fleeting Perceptual Experience and the Possibility of Recalling Without Seeing.
TL;DR: Evidence is shown for a dissociation between experience and reportability, whereby participants appear able to encode stimuli into working memory with little, if any, conscious experience of them.
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Drop it like it’s HOT: a vicious regress for higher-order thought theories
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that higher-order thought (HOT) theories of consciousness lead to a vicious infinite regress on the more than plausible assumption that our cognitive capacities are limited.
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A First Principles Approach to Subjective Experience
TL;DR: This approach removes reliance on behaviour and brain homologies for appraising whether non-human animals have the potential to subjectively experience sensory stimuli and defines a minimal neural architecture that is necessary (but not sufficient) for subjective experience.
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How Things Seem to Higher-Order Thought Theorists
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain how HOT theory can adequately explain the relevant mental appearances, illustrating the explanatory power of HOT theory, and explain why a mental state is conscious just in case one is aware of being in that state via HOT.
The effects of Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on neurocognitive functioning in healthy young adults
TL;DR: The principle of neural efficiency as established by Richard Haier (“smart brains work less hard”) was extended to apply to the neurocognitive effects of omega-3 supplementation and improved mental processing speed and reduced nonlinear components of the Visual Evoked Potentials (VEPs) for high contrast stimulation.
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