Consciousness Explained

The unfolding argument: Why IIT and other causal structure theories cannot explain consciousness

Michael Herzog, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Aaron Schurger

How can we explain consciousness? This question has become a vibrant topic of neuroscience research in recent decades. A large body of empirical results has been accumulated, and many theories have been proposed. Certain theories suggest that consciousness ...

2019

The Unfolding Argument: Why Recurrent Processing Cannot Explain Consciousness

Michael Herzog, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Aaron Schurger

Neuroscientific theories aim to explain paradigm cases of consciousness such as masking, binocular rivalry or the transition from dreamless sleep to wakefulness. The most popular theories are based on computational principles. Recurrent processing is a key ...

2018

Quasi-Continuous Unconscious Processing precedes Discrete Conscious Perception

Michael Herzog, Adrien Christophe Doerig

Consciousness seems to be a smooth, continuous stream of percepts. We are aware of the world at each single moment of time. However, intriguing illusions suggest that the world is not continuously translated into conscious perception. Instead, consciousnes ...

2018

Insula mediates heartbeat related effects on visual consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Roy Salomon, Roberta Ronchi, Javier Bello Ruiz, Jonathan Dönz

Interoceptive signals, such as the heartbeat, are processed in a network of brain regions including the insular cortex. Recent studies have shown that such signals modulate perceptual and cognitive processing, and that they impact visual awareness. For exa ...

2018

The Architectonic Experience of Body and Space in Augmented Interiors

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Isabella Maria Pasqualini, Maria Laura Blefari

The environment shapes our experience of space in constant interaction with the body. Architectonic interiors amplify the perception of space through the bodily senses; an effect also known as embodiment. The interaction of the bodily senses with the space ...

Frontiers Media2018

An invisible touch: Body-related multisensory conflicts modulate visual consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Roy Salomon, Javier Bello Ruiz

The majority of scientific studies on consciousness have focused on vision, exploring the cognitive and neural mechanisms of conscious access to visual stimuli. In parallel, studies on bodily consciousness have revealed that bodily (i.e. tactile, proprioce ...

Elsevier2016

Visual consciousness and bodily self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Roy Salomon

Purpose of review: In recent years, consciousness has become a central topic in cognitive neuroscience. This review focuses on the relation between bodily self-consciousness - the feeling of being a subject in a body - and visual consciousness - the subjec ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2015

Posing for awareness: Proprioception modulates access to visual consciousness in a continuous flash suppression task

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Roy Salomon

The rules governing the selection of which sensory information reaches consciousness are yet unknown. Of our senses, vision is often considered to be the dominant sense, and the effects of bodily senses, such as proprioception, on visual consciousness are ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)2013

Consciousness Explained

The Two Times Problem: Where Is the Problem?

The unfolding argument: Why IIT and other causal structure theories cannot explain consciousness

The Unfolding Argument: Why Recurrent Processing Cannot Explain Consciousness

Quasi-Continuous Unconscious Processing precedes Discrete Conscious Perception

Insula mediates heartbeat related effects on visual consciousness

The Architectonic Experience of Body and Space in Augmented Interiors

An invisible touch: Body-related multisensory conflicts modulate visual consciousness

Visual consciousness and bodily self-consciousness

Posing for awareness: Proprioception modulates access to visual consciousness in a continuous flash suppression task

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The Two Times Problem: Where Is the Problem?

The unfolding argument: Why IIT and other causal structure theories cannot explain consciousness

The Unfolding Argument: Why Recurrent Processing Cannot Explain Consciousness

Quasi-Continuous Unconscious Processing precedes Discrete Conscious Perception

Insula mediates heartbeat related effects on visual consciousness

The Architectonic Experience of Body and Space in Augmented Interiors

An invisible touch: Body-related multisensory conflicts modulate visual consciousness

Visual consciousness and bodily self-consciousness

Posing for awareness: Proprioception modulates access to visual consciousness in a continuous flash suppression task