BLOCK, Ned, Consc and Attention, April 23, 2014

grid in the bkgrnd... did not even put it in for 240 trials.

they did not notice it... many of them when asked.

Stan Dehaene's account is not true: it does NOT need to be processed

by the frontal areas for consc to occur. (Ned's claim)

he is trying to distinguish   whether the attn bottleneck is in front of perception or whether it is

after perception and before cognition.  (he thinks THAT is the case) and thatthere is rich perception that occurs before frontal processing.

Consc without broadcasting;  :

consc without attention is possible  (cites George Alvarez study)

can say where the centroid of distractors is....

Israeli psych science;

Ned thinks clock is running out on GWS theory of consc.

(cuz lots of contradictory evidence);

Alison Gopnik:  kids may have phenomenal consc but not cognitive consc....

NED:  presented evidence on nystagus with binocular rivalry;

(he believes that  no prefrontal activity is needed);

several challenges from the audience;

Psych Science study, Israeli... brand new study;

trying to disting. whether  prefrontal activaiton is needed for phenom consc

or whether it is needed only for reporting;

(role of the heart, supported by Aristotle, Ned comments to an aud. member from Africa)

Q  abt  V1 and consc:  Ned:  V1 not needed for visual consc.

Michael Graziano:  snake eating its tail: 

attenention enhances awareness and vice versa;

attn  certainly enhances signals;

Graziano:  TPJ is responsible for awareness;

modeling yourself prob. came first  evolutionarily  (via  back of the brain)

then modeling others came later  (via mirror neurons);

Sue Blackmore:  long period of development of attention in young kids  (discussed by Alison);

sue:  what's the effect of iPhones etc.  (in adults, distractors do subtract from attn resource)  etc.

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