Orienting Towards the Phenomenal Woman

The human amygdala drives reflexive orienting towards facial features

The human amygdala is reliably activated by facial expressions [1], but the precise functional relevance of such activity change is not well understood, because most previous studies did not allow for separating effects of the emotional expression from the distribution of specific facial features and neglected corresponding attentional processes. Findings on rare patients with bilateral amygdal...

Indiscriminability and the Phenomenal

Smelling phenomenal

Qualitative-consciousness arises at the sensory level of olfactory processing and pervades our experience of smells to the extent that qualitative character is maintained whenever we are aware of undergoing an olfactory experience. Building upon the distinction between Access and Phenomenal Consciousness the paper offers a nuanced distinction between Awareness and Qualitative-consciousness that...

Orienting towards ensembles: from single cells to neural populations.

Orienting towards social features in naturalistic scenes is reflexive

Saliency-based models of visual attention postulate that, when a scene is freely viewed, attention is predominantly allocated to those elements that stand out in terms of their physical properties. However, eye-tracking studies have shown that saliency models fail to predict gaze behavior accurately when social information is included in an image. Notably, gaze pattern analyses revealed that de...