Consciousness and metarepresentation: A computational sketch

Neural Networks

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1032-1039

  Cleeremans, Axel ^a   Timmermans, Bert ^a   Pasquali, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Higher order thought; Neural networks; Representation

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CONSCIOUSNESS; ENCODER; HIGHER ORDER THOUGHTS; METAREPRESENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; INTUITION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 35848956098     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2007.09.011     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Atkinson A.P., Thomas M.S.C., and Cleeremans A. Consciousness: mapping the theoretical landscape. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 10 (2000) 372-382
2. Baars B.J. A cognitive theory of consciousness (1988), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
3. Banerjee R. Buddha and the bridging relations. In: Banerjee R., and Chakrabarti B. (Eds). Models of brain and mind: Physical, computational and psychological approaches. Progress in brain research (2007), Elsevier, Amsterdam
4. Bechara A., Damasio H., Tranel D., and Damasio A. Deciding advantageously before knowing the advantageous strategy. Science 275 5304 (1997) 1293-1295
5. Bierman D., Destrebecqz A., and Cleeremans A. Intuitive decision making in complex situations: Somatic markers in an artificial grammar learning task. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 5 3 (2005) 297-305
6. Chalmers D.J. The conscious mind: In search of a fundamental theory (1996), Oxford University Press
7. Chalmers D.J. The hard problem of consciousness. In: Velmans M., and Schneider S. (Eds). The Blackwell companion to consciousness (2007), Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK 225-235
8. Clark A., and Karmiloff-Smith A. The cognizer's innards: A psychological and philosophical perspective on the development of thought. Mind and Language 8 (1993) 487-519
9. Cleeremans A. Computational correlates of consciousness. In: Laureys S. (Ed). Progress in brain research Vol. 150 (2005), Elsevier, Amsterdam 81-98
10. Cleeremans A. Conscious and unconscious cognition: A graded, dynamic perspective. In: Jing Q., Rosenzweig M.R., d'Ydewalle G., Zhang H., Chen H.-C., and Zhang C. (Eds). Neural, cognitive, and developmental issues. Progress in psychological science around the world Vol. 1 (2006), Psychology Press, Hove, UK 401-418
11. Cleeremans A., Destrebecqz A., and Boyer M. Implicit learning: News from the front. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2 (1998) 406-416
12. Dehaene S., Kerszberg M., and Changeux J.-P. A neuronal model of a global workspace in effortful cognitive tasks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95 24 (1998) 14529-14534
13. Dennett D.C. Consciousness explained (1991), Little, Brown & Co, Boston, MA
14. Dennett D.C. Are we explaining consciousness yet?. Cognition 79 (2001) 221-237
15. Dienes Z. Assumptions of subjective measures of unconscious mental states: Higher order thoughts and bias. Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 9 (2004) 25-45
16. Dienes Z. Subjective measures of unconscious knowledge. In: Banerjee R., and Chakrabarti B. (Eds). Models of brain and mind: Physical, computational and psychological approaches. Progress in brain research (2007), Elsevier, Amsterdam
17. Dienes Z., and Perner J. A theory of implicit and explicit knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1999) 735-808
18. Gaillard V., Vandenberghe M., Destrebecqz A., and Cleeremans A. Third- and first-person approaches in implicit learning research. Consciousness and Cognition 15 (2006) 709-722
19. Hinton. (1986). Learning distributed representations of concepts. Paper presented at the 8th annual conference of the cognitive science society
20. Humphrey N. Colour and brightness preferences in monkeys. Nature 229 (1971) 615-617
21. Humphrey N. Seeing red (2006), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
22. Karmiloff-Smith A. Beyond modularity: A developmental perspective on cognitive science (1992), MIT Press, Cambridge
23. Kirsh D. When is information explicitly represented?. In: Hanson P.P. (Ed). Information, language, and cognition (1991), Oxford University Press, New York, NY
24. Kirsh D. Implicit and explicit representation. In: Nadel L. (Ed). Encyclopedia of cognitive science Vol. 2 (2003), Macmillan, London, UK 478-481
25. Koch C. The quest for consciousness. A neurobiological approach (2004), Roberts & Company Publishers, Englewood, CO
26. Kreiman G., Fried I., and Koch C. Single-neuron correlates of subjective vision in the human medial temporal lobe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99 (2002) 8378-8383
27. Lamme V.A.F. Why visual attention and awareness are different. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7 1 (2003) 12-18
28. Lau H. A higher-order Bayesian decision theory of consciousness. In: Banerjee R., and Chakrabarti B. (Eds). Models of brain and mind: Physical, computational and psychological approaches. Progress in brain research (2007), Elsevier, Amsterdam
29. Maia T.V., and Cleeremans A. Consciousness: Converging insights from connectionist modeling and neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 8 (2005) 397-404
30. O'Brien G., and Opie J. A connectionist theory of phenomenal experience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1999) 175-196
31. O'Regan J.K., and Noë A. What it is like to see: A sensorimotor theory of visual experience. Synthèse 129 1 (2001) 79-103
32. Persaud N., McLeod P., and Cowey A. Post-decision wagering objectively measures awareness. Nature Neuroscience 10 (2007) 257-261
33. Rosenthal D. A theory of consciousness. In: Block N., Flanagan O., and Güzeldere G. (Eds). The nature of consciousness: Philosophical debates (1997), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
34. Seth A.K. Post-decision wagering measures metacognitive content, not sensory consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition (2007) 10.1016/j.concog.2007.05.008
35. Shiffrin R.M., and Schneider W. Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending, and a general theory. Psychological Review 84 (1977) 127-190
36. Tononi G. Consciousness differentiated and integrated. In: Cleeremans A. (Ed). The unity of consciousness: Binding, integration, and dissociation (2003), Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK 253-265
37. Tononi G. The information integration theory. In: Velmans M., and Schneider S. (Eds). The Blackwell companion to consciousness (2007), Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK 287-299