Abstract
Over the past several years, my colleagues and I outlined a novel approach to understanding the brain basis of consciousness. That approach was eventually called the Attention Schema Theory (AST) (Graziano 2010; Graziano and Kastner 2011; Graziano 2013; Graziano 2014; Kelly at al. 2014; Webb and Graziano 2015; Webb, Kean, and Graziano 2016; Webb et al. 2016). The core concept is extremely simple. The brain not only uses the process of attention to focus its resources onto select signals, but it also constructs a description, or representation, of attention. The brain is a model builder - it builds models of items in the world that are useful to monitor and predict. Attention, being an important aspect of the self, is modeled by an attention schema.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 174-187 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781317386810 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138936218 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2018 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Arts and Humanities