The rise of machine consciousness: Studying consciousness with computational models

Neural Networks

Volumn 44, Issue , 2013, Pages 112-131

  Reggia, James A ^a  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial consciousness; Machine consciousness; Review

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS; ATTENTION MECHANISMS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS; INFORMATION INTEGRATION; MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS;

DATA PROCESSING; REVIEWS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORISM; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS; SELF CONCEPT; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 84876454316     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: 18792782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2013.03.011     Document Type: Article

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