Shades of Awareness on the Mechanisms Underlying the Quality of Conscious Representations: A Commentary to Fazekas and Overgaard ().
Anna Anzulewicz, Michał Wierzchoń
Cognitive Science January 19, 2018 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12578 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Commentary Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Attention Awareness Co-consciousness Conscious representations Degraded consciousness Levels of processing |
| Key points | Argues that Fazekas and Overgaard's attention-based account of degraded conscious representations is insufficient, proposing that attentional mechanisms vary across processing stages and that expectation, prior experience, and context—factors independent of attention—must be incorporated into any comprehensive model of conscious visual perception. |
Abstract
Fazekas and Overgaard () present a novel, multidimensional model that explains different ways in which conscious representations can be degraded. Moreover, the authors discuss possible mechanisms that underlie different kinds of degradation, primarily those related to attentional processing. In this letter, we argue that the proposed mechanisms are not sufficient. We propose that (1) attentional mechanisms work differently at various processing stages; and (2) factors that are independent of attentional ones, such as expectation, previous experience, and context, should be accounted for if we are aiming to construct a comprehensive model of conscious visual perception.
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