Sight Unseen

Goodale, Melvyn A.; Milner, David J.

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596966.001.0001

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“…In addition, left superior parietal lobule alpha power significantly increased following OLMA, while a decrease was found following NMA. These results are in line with the importance of the superior parietal lobule in motor control (Georgopoulos, Langheim, Leuthold, & Merkle, ; Hickok & Poeppel, ), as well as in cognitive functions (Cohen et al, ) such as working memory task (Goodale & Milner, ). Thus, the superior parietal lobule might play a key role in mediating between the sensorimotor system involved in action in space and a cognitive system involved in linguistic processes, such as VWM.…”

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Effects of Aquatic Motor Intervention on Verbal Working Memory and Brain Activity—A Pilot Study

Nissim

Ram-Tsur

Glicksohn

et al. 2018

Mind Brain and Education

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Aquatic motor activity (AMA) has been reported to affect motor and cognitive abilities. However, the neural mechanisms that may mediate this relationship have never been explored. The traditional functions of the cerebellum include involvement in coordination and balance. Recent studies have shown cerebellar activity during verbal working memory (VWM) tasks. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of AMA on VWM and changes in cerebellar activity. Twenty‐four subjects were allocated to 1 month of AMA, on‐land motor activity or nonmotor activity intervention. We examined the effects of intervention on VWM ability using the digit span task. Using magnetoencephalography, we measured changes in alpha power. Our results demonstrate that the AMA significantly improved VWM. Moreover, improved VWM was positively correlated with increased right cerebellar alpha power. These results support previous studies regarding the cerebellar region's role in VWM, and demonstrate that VWM can be improved by AMA.

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confidence: 83%

Effects of Aquatic Motor Intervention on Verbal Working Memory and Brain Activity—A Pilot Study

Nissim

Ram-Tsur

Glicksohn

et al. 2018

Mind Brain and Education

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“…For example, neuropsychological studies have shown perserved texture and scene perception, but impaired object perception, in a patient with bilateral damage to lateral occipital cortex, an area of the brain that responds selectively to shape and object stimuli [84,85]. Conversely, a patient with damage to parahippocampal cortex had impaired scene recognition abilities and could only recognize scenes because of a prominent visual object (e.g., a house) [86].…”

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What is the Bandwidth of Perceptual Experience?

Cohen

Dennett

Kanwisher

2016

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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Although our subjective impression is of a richly detailed visual world, numerous empirical results suggest that the amount of visual information observers can perceive and remember at any given moment is limited. How can our subjective impressions be reconciled with these objective observations? Here, we answer this question by arguing that, although we see more than the handful of objects, claimed by prominent models of visual attention and working memory, we still see far less than we think we do. Taken together, we argue that these considerations resolve the apparent conflict between our subjective impressions and empirical data on visual capacity, while also illuminating the nature of the representations underlying perceptual experience.

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“…The vision for perception system has evolved in addition to the vision for action system (reviewed in Rossetti and Pisella, 2002; Glover, 2004; Goodale and Milner, 2004; Goodale and Humphrey, 2005; Goodale, 2007; Umiltá, 2007). The fact that a second visual system with different properties has evolved to provide suitable information for conscious perception must mean there is biological value in perceptual systems.…”

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The biological function of consciousness

Earl¹

2014

Front. Psychol.

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This research is an investigation of whether consciousness—one's ongoing experience—influences one's behavior and, if so, how. Analysis of the components, structure, properties, and temporal sequences of consciousness has established that, (1) contrary to one's intuitive understanding, consciousness does not have an active, executive role in determining behavior; (2) consciousness does have a biological function; and (3) consciousness is solely information in various forms. Consciousness is associated with a flexible response mechanism (FRM) for decision-making, planning, and generally responding in nonautomatic ways. The FRM generates responses by manipulating information and, to function effectively, its data input must be restricted to task-relevant information. The properties of consciousness correspond to the various input requirements of the FRM; and when important information is missing from consciousness, functions of the FRM are adversely affected; both of which indicate that consciousness is the input data to the FRM. Qualitative and quantitative information (shape, size, location, etc.) are incorporated into the input data by a qualia array of colors, sounds, and so on, which makes the input conscious. This view of the biological function of consciousness provides an explanation why we have experiences; why we have emotional and other feelings, and why their loss is associated with poor decision-making; why blindsight patients do not spontaneously initiate responses to events in their blind field; why counter-habitual actions are only possible when the intended action is in mind; and the reason for inattentional blindness.

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Sight Unseen

Cited by 92 publications

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Effects of Aquatic Motor Intervention on Verbal Working Memory and Brain Activity—A Pilot Study

Effects of Aquatic Motor Intervention on Verbal Working Memory and Brain Activity—A Pilot Study

What is the Bandwidth of Perceptual Experience?

The biological function of consciousness

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