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Consciousness Flashcards

1
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aspects of consciousness

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subjectivity
intentionality
unity
selectivity
transience
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outcomes of consciousness

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body awareness
agency
theory of mind
self awareness
metacognition
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subjectivity

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very subjective

personal experience isn’t easily quantifiable

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intentionality

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focused or directed at things

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unity

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not easily fragmented, can’t experience the same thing (duck and rabbit)

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selectivity

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have attention, filter out other parts

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transience

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stream of consciousness, mind wandering from moment to moment

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body awareness

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knowing you have a body

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agency

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understanding that you’re an individual that’s separate from the rest of the world

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theory of mind

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understanding that the contents of your mind are different from someone else’s

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self-awareness

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experiencing your experiences

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meta-cognition

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sometimes you’re thinking about thinking

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mirror task

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seeing a mark on your body in the mirror and either trying to wipe it off or wipe it off the mirror

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easy problem

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map brain activity to conscious experience

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hard problem

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knowing how that conscious experience is is experienced by the individual

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dualist language

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mind and body are separate

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materialism

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mind and body are one in the same, mind is part of body

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neural correlates of consciousness

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minimal neural mechanisms needed to produce the conscious experience

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consciousness vs selective attention

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need consciousness for attention, choose to give attention

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consciousness vs wakefulness

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can’t generate waking state, people can have a waking state but won’t show signs of being conscious

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consciousness vs perception

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mostly about organizing the world around us, high levels lead to a conscious
s experience

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consciousness vs explicit memory

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drawing memory from storage in the brain, contents of conscious experience

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consciousness vs decision making

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decisions are conscious in nature, however consciousness may not be doing anything and is just a byproduct (lags behind decisions)

24
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consciousness vs the self

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clearest part of self is what the conscious has access to. some parts are not accessible

25
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brain area where visual perception is

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cortex

26
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brain area where blindsight is

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midbrain

27
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top-down eye movement

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FEF (frontal eye field)

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bottom-up eye movement

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superior colliculus

29
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what happens when damage to the cortex impairs top down eyesight

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midbrain (superior colliculus) used for blind sight

30
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consciousness and pavlovian conditioning

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learning occurs prior to conscious XP

Hippocampus is used for conditioning of stimulus slightly separated, cerebellum when they are on top of one another

31
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why are different brain areas used for different kinds of conditioning?

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anterior usage for farther apart stimulus shows more conscious effort being used to facilitate conditioning

32
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thalamus in consciousness

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loss of function causes loss in consciousness, however results vary depending on damage

33
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how do we study loss of function in the thalamus without damaging the cortex

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compression of the skull does not damage cortex but does the thalamus

34
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consciousness is mainly focused on the:

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forebrain

35
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research methods that allow for study of consciousness

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bistable images
binocular rivalry
presenting relevant stimuli for given neuron
comparing conscious and non-conscious brains

36
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visual consciousness associated brain areas

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ventral stream of the visual system

37
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ventral stream of the visual system comoponents

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inferotemporal cortex, inferior temporal gyrus, fusiform gyrus

38
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binocular rivalry findings (non-human primates)

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shown neutral image and face image. show activity in the fusiform gyrus when reported seeing a face, no activity when shown mixed image

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inferotemporal cortex (IT)

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activity here preceeded conscious visual perception

40
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binocular rivalry findings (humans)

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FFA (fusiform face area) and PPA (parahippocampal place area) are involved in seeing either a face or place

41
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Halle Berry neurons

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neuronal populations are encoded for specific things

e.g. dolphins, even the word spelled out, even when they thing about them

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resting state brain activity

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see high activity in the posterior cingulate and mPFC

43
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how is resting state brain activity measured?

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via resting-state functional-connectivity MRI

44
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Default mode network

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brain areas associated with resting brain activity

45
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default mode network brain areas

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mPFC, posterior parietal cortex, PCC, precuneus, hippocampus, lateral temporal cortex

46
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DMN responsible for:

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spontaneous cognition (mind-wandering). also active when asked about a past of future event**

47
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sentinel hypothesis (DMN)

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even when you’re doing nothing you need to pay attention to the world so we’re always ready to go

48
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internal mentation hypothesis (DMN)

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always thinking of future events. represents stream of conscious, mind-wandering (literatures choice)

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