Task 5 Flashcards
What are the two set of arguments which seperate consciousness from attention ?
- Pschological theoreticl one
2. Neurobiological one
What is a fundamental assumption of consciousness ?
- that it needs selective attention
- It is the gate system
What does selective attention mean ?
- we are not aware of everything we lay our eyes on
- Certain stimuli might never reach consciousness, not even when attended even though they undergo sensory processing (CALLED non selective attentional mechanism)
Which studies proove selective attention ?
- IB and CB
- CB and IB are not failures of consciousness but failures of conscious memory
How can u manipulate selective attention ?
- Preceding stimuli: via cueing a certain stimuli
- it forms a neural representation of almost the whole scene in WM
- it leaves a trace of activation - Salient stimuli
What are the three clases of processing a stimuli ?
- unconscious, unattended or attended
Which of the 3 classes of processing reach awareness ?
- Only Attended
What is meant by the block theory ?
-Block distinguish between ‘phenomenal’ and ‘access’ awareness to describe consiousness
What is realted to phenomenal awareness ?
- sensory memory
- Example: Cue works also long after the item has disappeared - > representation still present and attention can select from it
- So it is the pool of information
What is realted to access awareness ?
- working memory
What is essential according to block to come from phenomenal to access awareness or form sensory to working memory ?
- Attentional selection = Selective attention
Based on the neurobiological persepctive what is meant by attention ?
- Attention is a selection process where some inputs are processed faster, better or deeper than others,-> better chance of being memorized
How does the brain determine which stimuli will be attended to ?
- depending on the state of the brain when stimuli arrive it chooses either one or the other
- It depnds also on the combination of sensory processing with short and long-term memory explains
Which brain state do we have ?
- Neutral brain state
- biased brain state
What is meant by the neutral brain state ?
- Stimulus is choosen because it better matches with stored synaptic weight
What is meant by the bias brain state ?
- processing of a previous stimulus has left a short-term trace of activity
- The stimuli which follows a similar path will be choosen
What is the major function of competition during neuronal proccesing ?
- it prevents all inputs from reaching output areas of the brain
What is meant by the localizationist approach ?
- The search of what kind of neural activity is, capable of producing awareness
Accoring to the article what replaced the localization approach ?
- By the distinction between Feedforward sweep (FFS) and recurrent processing (RP)
What is meant by FFS ?
- It is about passing on activaition of cells in cortical areas hierachly
- Very fast
- It is an unconscious process - no visaul awareness
What is meant by RP ?
- occurs after the FFS
- It is about recurrent interactions between neurons which are mediated by feedback–feedforward circuits
- This leads to manifastion of certain information
- consouisses
Where does the FFS start ?
- V 1= 40ms (uncosncious )
- Most visual areas = 80 ms (unconscious)
- Motor cortex = 120ms (consciousness)
What did certain studies about FFS and RP reveal ?
- Backwards masking -> revealed that FFS is still active even though it is invisble / but it supressed the RP which is why we can not see it
- TMS study -> feedback from MT to V1 is necessary for motion awareness
- Anesthetized animals - > FFS still worked but RP did not
What is meant by phenomenal awareness /consciousness ?
- no reportability
- You do not have any control over them
- Sensory experience and emotions
- is capable of handeling multiple stimulus cause of limited compettition (both stimuli)