Quality space computations for consciousness

SM Fleming, N Shea - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
The quality space hypothesis about conscious experience proposes that conscious sensory
states are experienced in relation to other possible sensory states. For instance, the colour …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct ventral stream and prefrontal cortex representational dynamics during sustained conscious visual perception

G Vishne, EM Gerber, RT Knight, LY Deouell - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Instances of sustained stationary sensory input are ubiquitous. However, previous work
focused almost exclusively on transient onset responses. This presents a critical challenge …

Free Will as Defined by the Constrained Disorder Principle: A Restricted, Mandatory, Personalized, Regulated Process for Decision-Making

Y Ilan - Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2024 - Springer
The concept of free will has challenged physicists, biologists, philosophers, and other
professionals for decades. The constrained disorder principle (CDP) is a fundamental law …

An adversarial collaboration to critically evaluate theories of consciousness

Cogitate Consortium, O Ferrante, U Gorska-Klimowska… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Different theories explain how subjective experience arises from brain activity,. These
theories have independently accrued evidence, yet, confirmation bias and dependence on …

Representations in human primary visual cortex drift over time

ZN Roth, EP Merriam - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Primary sensory regions are believed to instantiate stable neural representations, yet a
number of recent rodent studies suggest instead that representations drift over time. To test …

Conjunctive processing of spatial border and locomotion in retrosplenial cortex during spatial navigation

H Sun, R Cai, R Li, M Li, L Gao… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial information and dynamic locomotor behaviours are equally important for achieving
locomotor goals during spatial navigation. However, it remains unclear how spatial and …

[HTML][HTML] How to get rich from inflation

SAB Brown - Consciousness and Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
We seem to have rich experience across our visual field. Yet we are surprisingly poor at
tasks involving the periphery and low spatial attention. Recently, Lau and collaborators have …

Where is the 'posterior hot zone'? Open Review of Ferrante et al (2023):“An Adversarial Collaboration to Critically Evaluate Theories of Consciousness”(by the ARC …

H Lau - 2023 - psyarxiv.com
The target of this review is the June 26, 2023 version of a recent preprint (1), in which the
authors reported the first set of results of a highly publicized project (Cogitate) generously …

Invariant inter-subject relational structures in the human visual cortex

O Lipman, S Grossman, D Friedman, Y Hel-Or… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
It is a fundamental behavior that different individuals see the world in a largely similar
manner. This is an essential basis for humans' ability to cooperate and communicate …

Text-related functionality of visual human pre-frontal activations revealed through neural network convergence

A Shoham, R Broday-Dvir, I Yaron, G Yovel, R Malach - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The functional role of visual activations of human pre-frontal cortex remains a deeply
debated question. Its significance extends to fundamental issues of functional localization …