The controversial question of whether machines may ever be conscious must be based on a
careful consideration of how consciousness arises in the only physical system that …

Recent experimental studies and theoretical models have begun to address the challenge of
establishing a causal link between subjective conscious experience and measurable …

Consciousness science is marred by disparate constructs and methodologies, making it
challenging to systematically compare theories. This foundational crisis casts doubts on the …

Human information processing is characterized by bottlenecks that constrain throughput.
These bottlenecks limit both what we can perceive and what we can act on in multitask …

Short-term consolidation is the process by which stable working memory representations are
created. This process is fundamental to cognition yet poorly understood. The present work …

Attention and awareness are two tightly coupled processes that have been the subject of the
same enduring debate: Are they allocated in a discrete or in a graded fashion? Using the …

Is one's temporal perception of the world truly as seamless as it appears? This article
presents a computationally motivated theory suggesting that visual attention samples …

Doing two things at once is difficult. When two tasks have to be performed within a short
interval, the second is sharply delayed, an effect called the Psychological Refractory Period …

Vision is dynamic, handling a continuously changing stream of input, yet most models of
visual attention are static. Here, we develop a dynamic normalization model of visual …

It is well known that top–down expectations affect perceptual processes. Yet, remarkably
little is known about the relationship between expectations and conscious awareness. We …