Taylor W. Webb

The attention schema theory: a mechanistic account of subjective awareness

Frontiers in Psychology July 4, 2016 Taylor W. Webb, Michael S A Graziano

We recently proposed the attention schema theory, a novel way to explain the brain basis of subjective awareness in a mechanistic and scientifically testable manner. The theory begins with attention, the process by which signals compete for the brain’s limited computing resources. This internal signal competition is partly under a bottom-up influence and partly under top-down control. We...