Brain & Consciousness 1

Question 1

quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself, such as thoughts, feelings, memories, or sensations

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Consciousness

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brain giving meaning to the stimulation that are coming from the senses

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Perception

Question 3

minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any specific conscious experience. What must happen in your brain for you to experience a toothache, for example?

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Neuronal correlates of consciousness

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involved in a range of higher cognitive functions collectively known as

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Prefrontal cortex
Executive functions

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proposes that “When we say that we are aware of a certain piece of information, what we mean is just this: the information has entered into a specific storage area that makes it available to the rest of the brain”

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Dehaene 2014
Global workspace theory of consciousness

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flexible dissemination of information, is a characteristic property of the

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Conscious state

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have developed computer simulations of neural dynamics that successfully replicate the way in which distributed processing at the brain’s periphery gives way to a stable, serial “thought” at higher levels due to feedback amplification of one signal and inhibition of others.

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Dehaene

Question 8

includes such things as the sensations, perceptions, memories, feeling, and fantasies inside of our current awareness.

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Sigmund Freud psychoanalytic theory of personality

Conscious mind

Question 9

involves all of the things that you are currently aware of and thinking about. It is somewhat akin to short-term memory and is limited in terms of capacity. Your awareness of yourself and the world around you are part of yourconsciousness

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Conscious mind

Question 10

includes things that we might not be presently aware of but that we can pull into conscious awareness when needed.

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Preconscious mind /subconscious mind

Question 11

Things that the conscious mind wants to keep hidden from awareness are repressed into the ______. While we are unaware of these feelings, thoughts, urges, and emotions.

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Unconscious mind

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some brain states in which consciousness seems to be absent

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Dreamless sleep, coma, death

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can be accompanied by changes in thinking, disturbances in the sense of time, feelings of loss of control, changes in emotional expression, alternations in body image and changes in meaning or significance

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Altered state of consciousness

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practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.

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Medication

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considered useful to the degree that they can help to guide treatments.

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Conceptual distinctions

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assessed as a “level” ranging from coma and brain death at the low end, to full alertness and purposeful responsiveness at the high end.

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Consciousness

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minimal neuronal mechanism that allows awareness of sensory information

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Neuronal correlates of consciousness

Question 18

last stage of sleep where the individual’s brain is as its most active

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Rapid eye movement