CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SOCIAL BRAIN Michael S. A. Graziano Collaborators: Yin Kelly Taylor Webb

1. CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SOCIAL BRAIN Michael S. A. Graziano Collaborators: Yin Kelly Taylor Webb Jeffrey Meier Sabine Kastner

2. Attention Schema Theory

4. How and why do brains attribute the property of consciousness to themselves?

5. Selective signal enhancement

11. How can the brain control attention?

12. How can the brain control attention? Partly by using a model of attention.

13. How can the brain control attention? Partly by using a model of attention. (e.g. the brain controls the arm using an internal model of the arm.)

16. Awareness = Attention Schema

17. I am attending to an apple

18. Color Shape Texture I am attending to an apple Movement Smell Semantic Knowledge

19. Color Location Of Self Shape Body Schema Texture I am attending to an apple Self Identity Movement Smell Mood Memory Semantic Knowledge

20. Color Location Of Self Shape Body Schema Texture Attention Schema Self Identity Movement Smell Mood Memory Semantic Knowledge

21. Color Location Of Self Shape Body Schema Texture Attention Schema Self Identity Movement Smell Mood Memory Semantic Knowledge

22. Color Location Of Self Shape Body Schema Texture Attention Schema Self Identity Movement Smell Mood Memory Semantic Knowledge

23. Color Location Of Self Shape Body Schema Texture Attention Schema Self Identity Movement Smell Mood Memory Semantic Knowledge

24. Color Location Of Self Shape Body Schema Texture Attention Schema Self Identity Movement Smell Mood Memory Semantic Knowledge

25. Color Location Of Self Shape Body Schema Texture Attention Schema Self Identity Movement Smell Mood Memory Semantic Knowledge

26. Predictions

27. Predictions If: Awareness = schematic model of attention

28. Predictions If: Awareness = schematic model of attention Then: Prediction 1) You should be able to pay attention to something without being aware of it.

29. Predictions If: Awareness = schematic model of attention Then: Prediction 1) You should be able to pay attention to something without being aware of it. Prediction 2)

30. Predictions If: Awareness = schematic model of attention Then: Prediction 1) You should be able to pay attention to something without being aware of it. Prediction 2) Without awareness of an object, attention to that object should become less controlled.

31. Temperature Inside Temperature outside

32. Working Control Mechanism Temperature Inside Temperature outside

33. Working Control Mechanism Temperature Inside Broken Control Mechanism Temperature outside

37. Aware

38. Unaware Aware

41. A L

42. A L

43. A L 1.0 Latency (Seconds) 0.5 Match

44. A L 1.0 Latency (Seconds) 0.5 Match

45. A L 1.0 Latency (Seconds) 0.5 Match Mismatch

46. A L 1.0 Latency (Seconds) 0.5 Match Mismatch

47. Unaware Aware