Talking Points for Video Lesson 1: Four Paper, One Theory

TALKING POINTS

0:00: Paper #1: Baars et al. (2013) Global Workspace Dynamics 

0:28: What is meant by “Widespread Integration and Broadcasting?”

7:24: The Neuroscience of Widespread Integration

17:28: Cortico-thalamic Loops in Relation to GWT & Localist vs Local-Global Theories

28:40: The Question of Introspection

32:50: How is Consciousness Assessed?

35:10: Feelings of Knowing (FOKs) and the Neuroscience of Gut Feelings

48:38: Paper #2: Gaillard et al. (2009) Converging Intracranial Markers of Conscious Access

59:00: Paper #3: Herman et al. (2019) A Switch & Wave of Neuronal Activity

1:10:45: Brain Oscillations: Significance of Gamma and Beta Bands to Consciousness

1:18:25: Paper #4: Deco et al. (2019) Revisiting the Global Workspace

1:28:44: “Functional Rich Clubs”

1:39:05: The Past and Future Quest for Consciousness