Warren Mansell

2 papers in the library · 20 citations · publishing 2022-2025

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How can virtual reality help to understand consciousness? A thematic analysis of students' experiences in a novel virtual environment.

Consciousness and Cognition 2025 Keelan R Gorman, Aimee Wrightson-Hester, Michael Landman et al. 1 citation

Research on consciousness typically presents stimuli and records the responses that follow, to infer the intervening processes. Yet, VR allows ecological validity by giving the user freedom to continuously control their sensory input across three spatial dimensions via head and eye movement. We designed a virtual world in which the angle of view relates to the information complexity of the...

DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103792 Full text Consciousness Global workspace Information integration Optimal stimulation +2

An integrative control theory perspective on consciousness.

Psychological Review July 5, 2022 Warren Mansell 19 citations

An integrative account of consciousness should have a number of properties. It should build upon a framework of nonconscious behavior in order to explain how and why consciousness contributes to, and addresses the limitations of, nonconscious processes. It should also encompass the primary (phenomenal), secondary (access), and tertiary (self-awareness) aspects of consciousness. A number of...

DOI: 10.1037/rev0000384 Full text