The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness

Bernard J. Baars and Adam Alonzi The prefrontal cortex (PFC) interacts with the entire sensory and motor brain, with biocultural ...

The Global Workspace Theory (STS), medial temporal lobe (MTL), lateral occipital complex (LOC) and the PFC. In hearing, Heschel’ ...

Bernard J. Baars and Adam Alonzi one can travel from any street corner to any other. Almost all cortico-cortical and cortico- th ...

The Global Workspace Theory signal is interpreted, used to update local processes, and refreshed via reentrant signaling to the ...

Bernard J. Baars and Adam Alonzi communicate in a much more task-specific way. Current evidence suggests brief broadcasts, as su ...

The Global Workspace Theory Conscious percepts plausibly involve multiple “overlays,” like map transparencies, which can be sele ...

Bernard J. Baars and Adam Alonzi as shown by the very high-resolution of minimal conscious stimuli in the major modalities. On t ...

The Global Workspace Theory results in global delta waves. Chanting sounds like chatting at the peak of the delta wave, fol- low ...

Bernard J. Baars and Adam Alonzi is known to initiate prefrontal activation across multiple tasks demanding mental effort (Dunca ...

The Global Workspace Theory While “verbal report” is the traditional phrase, reports do not have to be verbal – any voluntary re ...

Bernard J. Baars and Adam Alonzi word may recruit routines whose relevance cannot be known ahead of time. We have referred to th ...

The Global Workspace Theory Crick, F., and Koch, C. (2005) “What is the function of the claustrum?” Philosophical Transactions o ...

Bernard J. Baars and Adam Alonzi Shimamura, A. P. (2010) “Hierarchical relational binding in the medial temporal lobe: the stron ...

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) combines Cartesian commitments with claims about engineering that it interprets, in part by ...

Francis Fallon Fourth, consciousness has the characteristic of integration. The elements of an experience are interdependent. Fo ...

Integrated Information Theory are inseparably fused. The fusion of these elements constitutes the structure of the experience: t ...

Francis Fallon than the latter; once again, IIT has made a prediction that receives empirical confirmation. IIT also claims that ...

Integrated Information Theory Systems with phi will have connections that will be lost by some partitions and not by oth- ers. S ...

Francis Fallon range of phi levels, and even within a conscious phenotype, consciousness will not remain constant from infancy t ...

Integrated Information Theory Furthermore, re-entrant systems may still generate very low levels of phi. Conventional CPUs have ...