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1 online resource |
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Psychology research progress |
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Psychology research progress series.
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CONSCIOUSNESS, ATTENTION AND MEANING; CONSCIOUSNESS, ATTENTION AND MEANING; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 1: CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE; 1. THE MAIN PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: QUALIA; 2. TWO APPROACHES TO CONSCIOUSNESS: THIRD-PERSON AND FIRST-PERSON PERSPECTIVES; 2.1. A Comparison between the Two Approaches; 2.2. A Critical Review of Models of Consciousness Based on the Third-Person Perspective; 3. A NEW MODEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS BASED ON THE FIRST-PERSON PERSPECTIVE; 3.1. The Perceptual System; 3.2. The Schema of Self |
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4. THE EMPIRICAL AND LOGICAL PLAUSIBILITY OF THE THREE MAIN ASSUMPTIONS IMPLIED BY THIS MODEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS4.1. Attention Is Necessary for Consciousness; 4.1.1. Some Positive Evidence of the Close Correlation between Attention and Consciousness; 4.1.1.1. Psyhological Studies of Visual Perception; 4.1.1.2. Psychological Studies of the Perception of Time; 4.1.1.3. Inattentional Blindness and Change Blindness; 4.1.2. Experiments Aimed at Demonstrating Consciousness in the Absence of Attention; 4.1.2.1. Animal and Gender Detection in Dual-Task; 4.1.2.2. Attentional Blink; 4.1.2.3. Gist |
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4.1.2.4. Pop-Out and the Cocktail Party Effect4.1.2.5. Iconic Memory; 4.1.2.6. Afterimage and Bistable Perception; 4.1.3. Experiments Aimed at Demonstrating Attention in the Absence of Consciousness; 4.1.3.1. The Absence of a First-Person Perspective; 4.1.3.2. Confusing the Perception of Absence with the Absence of Perception; 4.1.4. Attention and Consciousness Are not the Same Thing; 4.2. Attentional Activity Can be Performed Thanks to Nervous Energy, Which Is Supplied by the Organ of Attention |
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4.3. Attentional Activity Affects the Organ of Attention, Causing a Modification of the State of Nervous Energy itself, which Constitutes the Phenomenal Aspect of Consciousness5. FINAL COMMENTS; Chapter 2: MEANING; 1. CONSCIOUSNESS: THE ORGAN OF MEANING; 1.1. Additional Comments; 2. THE CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE OF MEANINGS; 3. LINGUISTIC MEANING; 3.1. Evidence Supporting the Hypothesis that Words Are Tools to Pilot Attention; 4. ATTENTIONAL SEMANTICS; 5. THE ANTECEDENTS OF ATTENTIONAL SEMANTICS; 5.1. Silvio Ceccato's Work; 5.2. The Drawbacks of Ceccato's Proposal |
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6. THE IMPORTANCE OF NON-ATTENTIONAL OPERATIONS FOR ATTENTIONAL SEMANTICS6.1. Mental Activity Consists of Conscious and Unconscious Operations; 6.2. A Classification of Conscious Experiences Elicited and Produced by the Joint Activity of the Organ of Attention and other Organs; 6.2.1. Conscious Experiences Determined by the Application of Attention to other Organs; 6.2.2. Conscious Experiences Determined by the Influence on the Organ of Attention of other Organs and the Physical Substrate of the Body |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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English |
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Description based on print version record |
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Consciousness.
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Attention.
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Meaning (Philosophy)
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Consciousness
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Attention
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference.
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Attention
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Consciousness
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Meaning (Philosophy)
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020678970 |
| ISBN |
9781612091051 |
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1612091059 |
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