[cross-posted @ Philosophy Sucks!] In Ned Block’s recent paper, published in Trends In Cognitive Science, he has defended his argument that perceptual consciousness overflows cognitive access from several recent objections (including from me). It is important that Block is defending overflow from cognitive access since he admits that perceptual consciousness does not overflow …
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Recently a talented vision scientist in my lab published a paper in Science showing that one can induce perceptual learning in an experimental participant through neurofeedback alone (i.e. they were able to improve the fit between the participants’ brain activity and an fMRI decoder for a particular orientation by asking …
The deadline is Dec 5th! Note the updated special sessions! I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the fourth online consciousness conference. the Invited Program includes, Bernard Baars, The Neurosciences Institute Special Session on Attention, Awareness, and Expectation organized by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and …
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I’m pleased to announce the recent publication of a special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology I guest edited with Dan Hutto and Victoria Southgate on mindreading and alternative accounts of social cognition. Here’s an excerpt from our editorial: Human beings, even very young infants, and members of several other species, exhibit …
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