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conscious awareness
Also known as: consciousness, conscious perception, conscious self-awareness
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Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 9 facts
claimEnvironmental information is likely filtered out before reaching conscious awareness unless it meets a specific perceptual or semantically meaningful threshold.
claimBreath focus in meditation integrates conscious awareness with ongoing, dynamic viscerosomatic function.
claimAttention research contradicts the common belief that people have full conscious awareness of their environment when their focal attention is directed outward or toward their own internal thoughts.
claimEarly stages of attentional processing and fleeting perceptual traces of sensory information exist prior to the onset of conscious awareness.
claimMaladaptive habits, distorted perceptions, and biases accumulate through the conditioning or reification of the Narrative Self, and most of these are not accessible to conscious awareness.
claimFull absorption in an object with focal awareness can be maladaptive because inhibitory processes may prevent pertinent sensory information from reaching conscious awareness, decreasing cognitive resources for task demands and potentially maintaining emotional reactivity related to the object of focus.
claimThe processing of high-resolution interoceptive information by the anterior insular cortex (AIC) facilitates phenomenological experience related to conscious awareness and likely improves self-regulation and autonomic control.
claimThe Experiential Phenomenological Self (EPS) is proposed to be a form of higher-order conscious, volitional awareness related to exteroceptive and interoceptive experience, including immediate motivational, social, and affective feelings, as well as top-down attentional control mechanisms.
claimVolitional shifting of conscious awareness between objects of attention in a serial or parallel fashion is a critical process for effectively managing or altering responses and impulses.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 7 facts
claimPreliterate cultures invariably embrace spiritual or animist views, which indicates a degree of reflection about the nature of conscious awareness.
claimStandard accounts of skill acquisition posit that conscious awareness is important during the initial learning phase, which eventually transitions to automatic processes that require little conscious oversight.
perspectiveStanislas Dehaene claims that conscious perception begins only with the 'ignition' of the global network, asserting that activity in primary sensory areas alone is insufficient for consciousness regardless of intensity or recurrence.
claimLeft hemisphere interpretative processes are a potential basis for narrative forms of conscious self-awareness.
claimJohn R. Anderson (1983) argues that while unconscious automatic processes are efficient and rapid, they operate in ways that are more fixed and predetermined than processes involving conscious self-awareness.
claimWilder Penfield (1975) and David Armstrong (1981) argue that conscious awareness is most important when dealing with novel situations and previously unencountered problems or demands.
claimBenjamin Libet (1985) argues that conscious self-awareness occurs too late to be the cause of relevant actions, suggesting it is either a result of the action or a joint effect of a shared prior cause.
The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org Nov 25, 2024 7 facts
claimMichal Polák and Tomáš Marvan propose that researchers should consider the evolution of non-conscious phenomenal states, suggesting that conscious awareness of these states may have evolved later through a separate set of evolutionary innovations.
referencePrediction models of consciousness, such as those proposed by den Ouden et al. (2012) and Keller and Mrsic-Flogel (2018), suggest that conscious awareness of prediction errors serves to highlight those errors, where the expectation against which the error is measured is a product of learning and memory.
claimThe second step of conscious perception, where a stimulus becomes fully conscious, is associated with a measurable time delay and a distinct pattern of neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs).
referenceEhret and Ramond (2022) propose that conscious perception of a stimulus begins with awareness (or the potential for awareness) and proceeds as a second step to render the perception fully conscious.
referenceThe paper 'Perspectives on olfactory processing, conscious perception, and orbitofrontal complex' by G. M. Shepherd was published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences in 2007.
claimInterpretations of conscious awareness within Global Workspace Theory differ, with some researchers viewing it as directly involved in interactive processes and others viewing it as an emergent consequence of those processes (Morsella et al., 2016; Raffone and Barendregt, 2020).
referenceBlumenfeld (2023) published 'Brain mechanisms of conscious awareness: detect, pulse, switch, and wave' in The Neuroscientist.
The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org 4 facts
claimThe nonconscious control system is the default mechanism for controlling skeletal muscles, operating with a speed and efficiency that exceeds the resolution of conscious perception.
claimHuman consciousness is often viewed as an upgrade of pre-existing cognitive skills, but conscious perception, memory, action, and decision-making are frequently inferior—less complex, slower, and less accurate—than their nonconscious (subliminal) counterparts.
claimWhen conscious awareness is directed toward a specific sensory or motor activity, the upper level of the automatic control system is typically disabled and replaced by consciousness.
claimThe intervention of conscious awareness in familiar, common activities, such as blind typing or jumping between rocks, hinders the automatic control system and results in deteriorated performance.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 3 facts
referenceSaul Kripke (1982) notes that Ludwig Wittgenstein's discussion of the conceptual problem of other minds relies on the claim that there is no conscious awareness of the self.
claimA common philosophical supposition is that self-consciousness is fundamentally a conscious awareness of the self, where introspection reveals a thing presented as oneself.
referenceThe sense of an experience as one's own can be understood as the self being implicitly given in the mode of conscious awareness, according to Musholt (2015).
#17 — ”Global Workspace Theory… - Consciousness and the Brain podcasts.apple.com Nov 22, 2021 3 facts
claimLarge waves of gamma activity in the cerebral cortex are hypothesized to be an indication of coordinated local-global activity during conscious perception.
claimConscious perception of a word is associated with longer-lasting and more widespread brain activity throughout the cortex compared to unconscious perception.
referenceThe paper 'A Switch and Wave of Neuronal Activity in the Cerebral Cortex During the First Second of Conscious Perception' (2019) by Herman et al. reports that consciously perceived stimuli elicit large-scale network switching followed by waves of gamma activity.
Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention psychologytoday.com Jun 9, 2015 3 facts
claimAdvancements in cognitive neuroscience and visualization techniques, such as fMRI and EEG, have enabled the empirical study of brain mechanisms directly related to conscious awareness.
claimResearch indicates that many forms of attention, even at the personal level, occur automatically and without conscious awareness.
claimThere exists a distinctive kind of conscious attention that is not reducible to either attention or conscious awareness alone.
Attention and consciousness - SelfAwarePatterns selfawarepatterns.com Jun 12, 2022 2 facts
4.5 Consciousness – Cognitive Psychology nmoer.pressbooks.pub 2 facts
claimThe human brain can process information, such as determining if a number is greater than 5, and initiate motor responses, such as preparing a key press, without the individual having conscious awareness of the stimulus. This was demonstrated in a study by Dehaene et al. (1998).
claimIn patients with cortical blindness, visual cortex areas may still receive visual input through projections from the thalamus and superior colliculus, which allows for preserved visual abilities that occur without conscious awareness.
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and ... - Nature nature.com Apr 30, 2025 2 facts
referenceFarooqui and Manly (2018) reported that attended and conscious perception can deactivate fronto-parietal regions in their study published in Cortex.
claimThe experimental design of the study on global neuronal workspace and integrated information theory used task relevance to distinguish between the effects of task demands and conscious perception.
(PDF) Unifying Theories of Consciousness, Attention, and ... academia.edu 2 facts
claimThe leading consensus view, supported by experimental findings from the last 5 years, is that attention is necessary, but not sufficient, for conscious perception.
claimResearchers in a 2012 Frontiers in Psychology article argue that studying the relationship between different forms of attention and conscious perception can provide insights into the neural states or processes necessary for conscious perception.
Quantum Models of Consciousness from a Quantum Information ... arxiv.org Dec 20, 2024 2 facts
claimThe CEMI (Conscious Electromagnetic Information) field theory posits that conscious awareness is related to the degree of synchronization in neuronal firing rather than the total number of neurons firing.
claimJohnjoe McFadden proposed the Conscious Electromagnetic Information (CEMI) Field Theory to examine the experimentally observed correlations between synchronized neuronal firing and conscious awareness.
Fame in the Brain—Global Workspace Theories of Consciousness psychologytoday.com Oct 28, 2023 2 facts
claimThe attentional 'spotlight' selects and prioritizes information for conscious access because conscious awareness is a limited resource.
quoteDaniel Dennett has referred to the process of information being broadcast to the whole workspace, resulting in conscious perception and cognition, as 'fame in the brain.'
Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Jan 29, 2024 1 fact
perspectiveDaniel Dennett (1991) argues that conscious awareness is an illusion and should not be treated as a distinct ontological substance of the world, universe, or multiverse.
What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved quantamagazine.org Aug 24, 2023 1 fact
claimPhilosophers and experimenters have criticized studies correlating conscious perception with prefrontal cortex activity, arguing that these studies may measure the neural activity of the reporting task rather than consciousness itself.
Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org Apr 17, 2018 1 fact
referenceRiccardo Manzotti published 'A process oriented view of conscious perception' in the Journal of Consciousness Studies in 2006.
Global Workspace vs. Integrated Information: Testing… templetonworldcharity.org 1 fact
claimResearchers analyze neuronal activity in mice during conscious perception of stimuli, specifically excluding instances where the mice respond to those stimuli.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimMany cognitive processes occur within the cognitive unconscious and are unavailable to conscious awareness, even when those processes result in voluntary behavior.
How does consciousness work? - Monash Lens lens.monash.edu Jul 4, 2025 1 fact
claimIntegrated information theory predicts that conscious perception is associated with sustained synchronization and activity of signals in the posterior cortex of the brain.
Protocol for testing global neuronal workspace and integrated ... journals.plos.org 1 fact
claimSuccessful decoding of orientation information provides empirical support for the presence of that information within the neural substrate of conscious perception.
[PDF] Integrating Consciousness Science with Cognitive Neuroscience med.nyu.edu 1 fact
claimConsciousness researchers have long recognized a tight connection between research on conscious perception and classic vision neuroscience.
Scientists Identify the Evolutionary “Purpose” of Consciousness scitechdaily.com Nov 27, 2025 1 fact
claimGianmarco Maldarelli and Onur Güntürkün argue that birds may possess fundamental forms of conscious perception, specifically in sensory consciousness, neurobiological foundations, and self-consciousness.
Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love May 7, 2025 1 fact
claimNeuroscience has successfully correlated specific brain processes, such as particular neural oscillations or network dynamics, with aspects of conscious awareness.
The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems cambridge.org Mar 31, 2023 1 fact
claimA popular interpretation posits that the subjective threshold measures a subject's conscious awareness of a stimulus and their decisions on how to act, rather than the stimulus itself or the subject's perceptual acuity, which are measured by the objective threshold.
Psychedelics as a treatment for disorders of consciousness - PMC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Apr 21, 2019 1 fact
perspectiveThe authors of the paper 'Psychedelics as a treatment for disorders of consciousness' propose that psilocybin, a classic psychedelic, should be explored as a treatment to increase conscious awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC).
Rethinking Consciousness: When Science Puts Itself to the Test maxplanckneuroscience.org May 14, 2025 1 fact
claimThe Cogitate Consortium study found that the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) prediction that conscious perception depends on sustained synchronization in posterior brain regions was not supported by the data.
Psychology and Cognitive Science on Consciousness klinikong.com 1 fact
claimResearch in cognitive neuroscience suggests that the prefrontal cortex and parietal lobes are crucial for conscious awareness and cognitive functions.
Sliding Scale Theory of Attention and Consciousness ... - PMC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Feb 10, 2022 1 fact
claimExisting theories of consciousness address the relationship between attention and conscious awareness.
Recent Advances in the Study of Altered State of Consciousness mdpi.com 1 fact
claimThe Special Issue of the journal Brain Sciences titled 'Recent Advances in the Study of Altered State of Consciousness' aims to provide an overview of recent advances in understanding the neural correlates of conscious awareness and altered states of consciousness.