ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2014
The interplay of attention and consciousness in visual search, attentional blink and working memory consolidation.
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- Inaccessible time to visual awareness during attentional blinks in macaques and humans.iScience · 2023Article
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- What processes are disrupted during the attentional blink? An integrative review of event-related potential research.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Review
- Induced negative arousal modulates the speed of visual working memory consolidation.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Article
- Grand Challenges in Consciousness Research Across Perception, Cognition, Self, and Emotion.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Time and time again: a multi-scale hierarchical framework for time-consciousness and timing of cognition.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021Article
- Access to consciousness of briefly presented visual events is modulated by transcranial direct current stimulation of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Searching basic units in memory traces: associative memory cells.F1000Research · 2019Review
- Visual Attention Modulates Phenomenal Consciousness: Evidence From a Change Detection Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Associative memory cells and their working principle in the brain.F1000Research · 2018Review
- Differential Contributions of GABA Concentration in Frontal and Parietal Regions to Individual Differences in Attentional Blink.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016Article
- Concurrent brain responses to separate auditory and visual targets.Journal of neurophysiology · 2015Article
- Rapid switching and complementary evidence accumulation enable flexibility of an all-or-none global workspace for control of attentional and conscious processing: a reply to Wyble et al.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Article
- On the interplay between working memory consolidation and attentional selection in controlling conscious access: parallel processing at a cost--a comment on 'The interplay of attention and consciousness in visual search, attentional blink and working memory consolidation'.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Perceptual awareness and its neural basis: bridging experimental and theoretical paradigms.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2014Article
- Fixation duration surpasses pupil size as a measure of memory load in free viewing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Article
- Cognitive programs: software for attention's executive.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Despite the acknowledged relationship between consciousness and attention, theories of the two have mostly been developed separately. Moreover, these theories have independently attempted to explain phenomena in which both are likely to interact, such as the attentional blink (AB) and working memory (WM) consolidation. Here, we make an effort to bridge the gap between, on the one hand, a theory of consciousness based on the notion of global workspace (GW) and, on the other, a synthesis of theories of visual attention. We offer a theory of attention and consciousness (TAC) that provides a unified neurocognitive account of several phenomena associated with visual search, AB and WM consolidation. TAC assumes multiple processing stages between early visual representation and conscious access, and extends the dynamics of the global neuronal workspace model to a visual attentional workspace (VAW). The VAW is controlled by executive routers, higher-order representations of executive operations in the GW, without the need for explicit saliency or priority maps. TAC leads to newly proposed mechanisms for illusory conjunctions, AB, inattentional blindness and WM capacity, and suggests neural correlates of phenomenal consciousness. Finally, the theory reconciles the all-or-none and graded perspectives on conscious representation.
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