Consciousness, Attention & Sleep (W23)

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  • Consciousness, attention & sleep
    • Neurobiology: Consciousness arises from neural activity of the brain.
      • Consciousness and brain damage
        • EG: Anterograde amnesia remain unaware that they are learning.
        • Crick: Consciousness is the result of neural assembly. Oscillations in the cortex form consciousness.
        • Penrose: Consciousness is a form of non- algorithmic processing.
          • Hameroff : Anaesthesia challenges the neural correlation of consciousness. Blocks activity of the thalamus, determining unconsciousness.
    • Cognitive theories
      • Boar: Consciousness is contained in a central processor called a global workspace.
      • Dennett: Consciousness is all or nothing. Its an activation of a collection of sensory infomation.
      • Shanon: Being, awareness and reflection.
    • Selective attention
      • Dichotic Listening - listen to 2 models simultaneously.
        • Shadow the message presented to one ear - shadowing would ensure prominence in attention.
      • Cocktail-Party phenomenon: you can hear your conversation despite other noises and conversations in the room.
        • Background noise: we exclude (less conscious) of auditory information that is not directly necessary.
      • Models of selective attention
        • Early selection- if items are not attended to they are not selected for neural analysis and play no further part in processing info.
          • Late selection: all information is attended to and only later is selected into relevant and not.
        • Visual infomation
          • Inattentional blindness: do not notice changes in visual stimulus if paying attention elsewhere.
          • Divided attention: attention can be split to take in all necessary stimulus at one time.
    • Hypnosis
      • Move through various channels of consciousness through verbal suggestions.
      • Post hypnotic suggestibility:following instructions in hypnosis.
        • Post hypnotic amnesia: once leaving the hypnotic state, they do not remember what has occurred.
      • Barber: participating in vicarious narrative
      • Efficacy of hypnotic analgesia is via partitioning attention and the role of the anterior brain
    • Sleep is a state of altered consciousness
      • 5 Sleep stages
      • Dreaming
        • REM sleep allows you to remember your dream, others are less conscious
          • Levels of consciousness
            • Sleep is a state of altered consciousness
              • 5 Sleep stages
              • Dreaming
                • REM sleep allows you to remember your dream, others are less conscious
                  • Levels of consciousness
      • Implicit Memory : memory that cannot be described verbally and of which the person is not aware

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