Attention and consciousness exhibit different gain functions in afterimage experiments

Introduction to research topic: attention and consciousness in different senses

1 Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2 Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4 Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA *Correspondence: [email protected]; j.j.a.vanbox...

Psyche, attention and consciousness

It is a great pleasure to re-launch Psyche. As the journal of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), the mission is to provide a prominent forum for the communication of scientific efforts to understand consciousness. With ~10 neurons and ~10 synapses per neuron, understanding how the human brain can achieve consciousness is arguably one of the biggest challenges that...

Attention and consciousness.

For the past three decades there has been a substantial amount of scientific evidence supporting the view that attention is necessary and sufficient for perceptual representations to become conscious (i.e., for there to be something that it is like to experience a representational perceptual state). This view, however, has been recently questioned on the basis of some alleged counterevidence. I...

Attention and Olfactory Consciousness

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