Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
February 19, 2017
Andrew R Dykstra, Peter A Cariani, Alexander Gutschalk
How and which aspects of neural activity give rise to subjective perceptual experience-i.e. conscious perception-is a fundamental question of neuroscience. To date, the vast majority of work concerning this question has come from vision, raising the issue of generalizability of prominent resulting theories. However, recent work has begun to shed light on the neural processes subserving...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
August 19, 2016
Paul Verschure
Understanding the nature of consciousness is one of the grand outstanding scientific challenges. The fundamental methodological problem is how phenomenal first person experience can be accounted for in a third person verifiable form, while the conceptual challenge is to both define its function and physical realization. The distributed adaptive control theory of consciousness (DACtoc) proposes...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
May 5, 2014
Antonino Raffone, Narayanan Srinivasan, Cees van Leeuwen
85 citations
Despite the acknowledged relationship between consciousness and attention, theories of the two have mostly been developed separately. Moreover, these theories have independently attempted to explain phenomena in which both are likely to interact, such as the attentional blink (AB) and working memory (WM) consolidation. Here, we make an effort to bridge the gap between, on the one hand, a theory...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
May 5, 2014
Hyeong-Dong Park, Catherine Tallon-Baudry
The report 'I saw the stimulus' operationally defines visual consciousness, but where does the 'I' come from? To account for the subjective dimension of perceptual experience, we introduce the concept of the neural subjective frame. The neural subjective frame would be based on the constantly updated neural maps of the internal state of the body and constitute a neural referential from which...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
May 29, 2007
Sid Kouider, Stanislas Dehaene
Understanding the extent and limits of non-conscious processing is an important step on the road to a thorough understanding of the cognitive and cerebral correlates of conscious perception. In this article, we present a critical review of research on subliminal perception during masking and other related experimental conditions. Although initially controversial, the possibility that a broad...