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ArticleCognitive neuropsychology

Consciousness and the attention schema: Why it has to be right.

Michael S A Graziano

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Article in Cognitive neuropsychology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  4. Consciousness Research Through Pain.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
  5. Attention, awareness, and the right temporoparietal junction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
    Article
  6. Neuroscience of the yogic theory of consciousness.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021
    Review
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Michael S A GrazianoDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article describes some aspects of the underlying logic of the attention schema theory (AST) of subjective consciousness. It is a theory that distinguishes between what the brain actually, physically has, what is represented by information models constructed in the brain, what higher cognition thinks based on access to those models and what speech machinery claims based on the information within higher cognition. It is a theory of how we claim to have an essentially magical, subjective mind, based on the impoverishment and reduction of information along that pathway. While the article can stand on its own as a brief account of some critical aspects of AST, it specifically addresses questions and concerns raised by a set of commentaries on a target article.

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AwarenessConsciousnessAttentionBrainCognitionHumansattentionawarenessConsciousnesssocial cognitiontheory of mind

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PMID32434429

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