The Global Workspace Needs Metacognition
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.04.007
Abstract: The two leading cognitive accounts of consciousness currently available concern global workspace (a form of working memory) and metacognition. There is relatively little interaction between these two approaches and it has even been suggested that… read more here.
Keywords: needs metacognition; global workspace; workspace; workspace needs ... See more keywords
Revisiting the global workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organization of the human brain
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DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-01003-6
Abstract: A central challenge in neuroscience is how the brain organizes the information necessary to orchestrate behaviour. Arguably, this whole-brain orchestration is carried out by a core subset of integrative brain regions, a ‘global workspace’, but… read more here.
Keywords: organization human; hierarchical organization; human brain; brain ... See more keywords
Neural Computations Underlying Phenomenal Consciousness: A Higher Order Syntactic Thought Theory
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00655
Abstract: Problems are raised with the global workspace hypothesis of consciousness, for example about exactly how global the workspace needs to be for consciousness to suddenly be present. Problems are also raised with Carruthers’s (2019) version… read more here.
Keywords: consciousness; higher order; phenomenal consciousness; order syntactic ... See more keywords