Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Actions
Sensory inputs
Brain mechanisms
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Sensations
Sensorimotor Contingencies
(D. M. MacKay, 1956)
Feeling Softness
knowing that sensorimotor contingencies typical of softness are currently being obeyed.
Seeing Red
knowing that sensorimotor contingencies typical of red are currently being obeyed.
Red is the way red things change the light (Broackes, 1992)
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Previous efforts
Kohler 1951 Mc Collough 1965 Harrington 1965 Leppman & Wieland, 1966
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Forced choice
more yellow-ish
more blue-ish
% responses blue
100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0.7 0.75 0.8 0.825 0.85 0.875
color
Intermodal differences
SEEING
blink:
move forward: big change expanding flow shifting flow nothing
HEARING
no change
increasing amplitude asynchrony
turn sideways:
cover ears: cover eyes:
big change
big change nothing
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Audio-Tactile Substitution
Aline Bompas, Kevin ORegan
right microphone
left microphone
QuickTime et un dco mpresseur codec YUV420 sont requis pou r visualiser cette imag e.
Seeing Straightness
knowing that sensorimotor contingencies typical of straightness are currently being obeyed.
SCENE
RETINAL STIMULATION
CORTICAL REPRESENTATION
Cortex
Retina
Visual field
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QuickTime et u n dcomp resse ur Intel Inde o Video 5 .0 sont requis pou r visualiser cette ima ge.
Corporality/Bodiliness
tight link to body motions
Alerting capacity/Grabbiness
transients incontrovertibly grab attention
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Corporality/Bodiliness
e.g. visual, auditory, etc. also: proprioception not: autonomic sensory pathways
Alerting Capacity/Grabbiness
(can cause exogenous attentional capture) e.g. visual, auditory pathways, etc. not: vestibular, proprioceptive, autonomic sensory pathways
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Remembering
corporality --
alerting capacity --
Seeing
corporality +++
"raw feel"
corporality remember --
alerting capacity --
see
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"raw feel"
alerting capacity
obsession, worry embarassment fear love happiness loneliness thought, memory
richness
proprioception
corporality
EXERCISING A SKILL !
COGNITIVELY ENGAGING IN
EXERCISING A SKILL !
Having an experience
different qualities
Avoir une sensation (perceptive) = tre en train d accder au savoir qu on exerce actuellement une habilit sensorimotrice d un type spcifique spcificits des habilits sensorimotrices perceptives:
monde comme source d informations (mmoire externe) corporalit capacit d alerte
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qualit plutt que rien habilits diffrentes (something it's like) compars aut res activits menta les "prsence " corporalit et capac it d'alerte ccit aux change ments
Ressources
Transparents du cours et autres infos: http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr Articles en ligne sur la conscience: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/online.html PSYCHE http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ JCS http://www.imprint.co.uk/ Abstracts de confrences rgulires: ASSC http://www.assc.caltech.edu/ Tucson (Toward a Science of Consciousness) http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/tucson/index.html
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* Moshe Bar & Irving Biederman, Localizing the cortical region mediating visual awareness of object identity (awareness area) * Nancy Kanwisher, Neural events and perceptual awareness (review on NCC) !! Christof Koch (NCC) !! Gabriel Kreiman, Itzhak Fried, & Christof Koch (Single neuron awareness) Erik D. Lumer *and Geraint Rees (Awareness and rivalry) Lumer, Friston & Rees (aware percepts in rivalry) Maknik & haglund (optical images correlate with percept not with input) Sahraie, L. Weiskrantz, J.L. Barbur, et al (aware and unaware areas in blindsight) D.L. Sheinberg & N. Logothetis (aware vs unaware neurons in rivalry) !! R. Srinivasan, D.P. Russell, G.M. Edelman, & G. Tononi !! G. Tononi, R. Srinivasan, D.P. Russell, & G.M. Edelman (awareness in large numbers of synchronous neurons) !! S. Zeki, S. Aglioti, D. McKeefry, & G. Berlucchi (V1-V2 wavelength; V4 color constancy)
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Sensory Quality
J.K.ORegan & A.No, A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5, 2001
Phenomenality
Corporality/Alerting Capacity (bodiliness/grabbiness)
J.K.ORegan, E. Myin & A.No, Towards an analytic phenomenology (in press)