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How Do Attention, Intention, and Consciousness Interact?

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Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2010 (ICANN 2010)

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This talk will discuss how brain processes of attention, intention, and consciousness differ but interact. It will show how recent neural models that link brain processes to behavioral experiences clarify these interactions. The talk will, in particular, discuss some of the phenomena illustrating dissociations between attention and consciousness that were summarized in the article of Koch and Tsuchiya (2007). Supported in part by CELEST, an NSF Science of Learning Center (SBE-0354378) and by the SyNAPSE program of DARPA (HR0011-09-C-0001).

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  1. Center for Adaptive Systems, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, and Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215

    Stephen Grossberg

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  1. Department of Informatics, TEI of Thessaloniki, 57400, Sindos, Greece

    Konstantinos Diamantaras

  2. Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, School of Physics, Astronomy, and Informatics, ul. Grudziadzka 5, 87-100, Torun, Poland

    Wlodek Duch

  3. Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, Pantazidou 193, 68200, Orestiada Thrace, Greece

    Lazaros S. Iliadis

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Grossberg, S. (2010). How Do Attention, Intention, and Consciousness Interact?. In: Diamantaras, K., Duch, W., Iliadis, L.S. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2010. ICANN 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6354. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15825-4_67

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