Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
January 7, 2026
Andrew E Budson, Hinze Hogendoorn, Donna Rose Addis
Our theories stemming from perception, memory, and neurology came to similar and complementary conclusions regarding the mechanism of conscious brain processes. We suggest that consciousness is the explicit memory of past events or the general cognitive capacity to simulate events, whether used to consciously remember the past, experience the present, or imagine the future. Perceptual...
Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
March 1, 2023
Hinze Hogendoorn
In the previous issue, Budson, Richman, and Kensinger (2022) put forth the intriguing proposal that consciousness may have evolved from the episodic memory system. In addition to providing a possible evolutionary trajectory for consciousness, I believe that viewing consciousness as an extension of memory in this way is particularly useful for understanding some of the puzzling temporal...
bioRxiv
April 21, 2020
Matthew J Davidson, Will Mithen, Hinze Hogendoorn et al.
preprint
Although visual awareness of an object typically increases neural responses, we identify a neural response that increases prior to perceptual disappearances , and that scales with the amount of invisibility reported during perceptual filling-in. These findings challenge long-held assumptions regarding the neural correlates of consciousness and entrained visually evoked potentials, by showing...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
April 4, 2017
Johannes J Fahrenfort, Jonathan Van Leeuwen, Christian N L Olivers et al.
102 citations
The visual system has the remarkable ability to integrate fragmentary visual input into a perceptually organized collection of surfaces and objects, a process we refer to as perceptual integration. Despite a long tradition of perception research, it is not known whether access to consciousness is required to complete perceptual integration. To investigate this question, we manipulated access to...