The final part, though I might add something about some issues that have arisen in comments. Anyway, here’s the idea to be unpacked: Introspective and perceptual attention rely in the same way on visual experience, namely the coupling of vision to cognition
Given that the school year at CMU starts today, this will be my last post (split in two). Thanks to readers for very helpful discussion in the previous posts. Part 2 will be published late Tuesday or Wednesday. [Update: teaching classes today, so will be slower to respond, though I …
I’m going to push this topic ahead of discussing the visual streams since it is connected to the very active discussion that we had on automaticity and control in the second post. Apologies to those who want to discuss visual processing in primary cortex and its connection to visual consciousness. …
The positive symptoms of schizophrenia present one striking and debilitating aspect of the disorder and include delusions of control (where subjects take actions they perform to be done by others), thought insertion (where subjects have thoughts that they attribute as belonging to others), and auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH), where subjects …
Hi all following up on a blog post here a while back I’ve put together a survey on impressions of responsibility in cases of filicide. If you’d like to take part see the below advertisement cheers Glenn
[Update: given really helpful discussion below, I’ve put a summary of some of the extended comments below] I want to begin with a distinction that I think is fundamental to our thinking about the mind and yet is not adequately characterized by philosophers or psychologists (the latter will beg to …
Thanks to John for the invitation to post in the Brains blog and for his detailed introduction and overview of my work. I also want to commend him for the many exciting developments since he took over from Gualtiero’s admirable tenure as founder. Here are the topics I hope to …
