Project description
A neurodynamical look into consciousness
In the area of psychology and neuroscience, consciousness is an important field of research. The EU-funded CONSCIOUS project will explore how conscious experiences depend on the brain. To investigate how particular conscious experiences can be understood as arising from the brain’s ‘best guesses’, the project will develop novel machine-learning models. Neuroimaging will be used to test the idea that different kinds of neurally encoded predictions can account for different kinds of perceptual experience. By exploring correlations between patterns of brain activity and aspects of consciousness, as well as developing new theories about emergence and predictive processing, CONSCIOUS will examine how the globally unified character of conscious experiences emerges from neural dynamics.
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ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant
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BN1 9RH Brighton
United Kingdom
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BN1 9RH Brighton
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6525 XZ Nijmegen
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