Recurrent awareness

Recurrent neural processing and somatosensory awareness.

The neural mechanisms of stimulus detection, despite extensive research, remain elusive. The recurrent processing hypothesis, a prominent theoretical account of perceptual awareness, states that, although stimuli might in principle evoke feedforward activity propagating through the visual cortex, stimuli that become consciously detected are further processed in feedforward-feedback loops establ...

Why is “blindsight” blind? A new perspective on primary visual cortex, recurrent activity and visual awareness

The neuropsychological phenomenon of blindsight has been taken to suggest that the primary visual cortex (V1) plays a unique role in visual awareness, and that extrastriate activation needs to be fed back to V1 in order for the content of that activation to be consciously perceived. The aim of this review is to evaluate this theoretical framework and to revisit its key tenets. Firstly, is blind...

Self - awareness without awareness ?

Objective self-awareness theory contends that focusing attention on the self initiates an automatic comparison of self to standards. To gain evidence for automatic self–standard comparison processes, two experiments manipulated attention to self with subliminal first-name priming. People completed a computer-based parity task after being instructed that the standard was to be fast or to be accu...

Awareness *

Unawareness refers to the lack of conception rather than the lack of information. This chapter discusses various epistemic approaches to modeling (un)awareness from computer science and economics that have been developed over the last 25 years. While the focus is on axiomatizations of structures capable of modeling knowledge and propositionally determined awareness, we also discuss structures f...

Awareness in Games, Awareness in Logic