ReviewScience China. Life sciences2021
Does consciousness overflow cognitive access? Novel insights from the new phenomenon of attribute amnesia.
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- Time Course of Orientation Ensemble Representation in the Human Brain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- What is consciousness and what it is for. An introduction to extended information theory.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Children exhibit superior memory for attended but outdated information compared to adults.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Flexibility Retained: Unimpaired Updating of Expectations in Schizophrenia.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Consciousness and the fallacy of misplaced objectivity.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021Article
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Abstract
The moment we open our eyes, we experience a rich and detailed visual world, but the amount of information available to report is rather limited. This dissociation relates to a major debate regarding the nature of visual consciousness. The overflow argument suggests that our conscious experience is quite rich and far beyond what can be reported, standing in sharp contrast to the no-overflow argument that visual consciousness is severely impoverished and limited to what can be reported. In this paper, we systematically reviewed existing evidence in favor of the overflow argument, including studies of several variations of the iconic memory paradigm and the divided attention paradigm, as well as studies of neural correlates of consciousness. Simultaneously, we expounded some critical objections and alternative interpretations to such evidence, as well as some opposing evidence. Finally, we introduced a series of our recent studies based on a striking phenomenon of attribute amnesia, which we believe could provide new insight into the overflow view of visual consciousness.
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