141 Citations
Animal Consciousness: The Interplay of Neural and Behavioural Evidence
- Psychology, BiologyJournal of Consciousness Studies
- 2022
The relationship between neural and behavioural evidence for animal consciousness is considered, and two recent studies are critically examined, revealing a sense in which Neural and behavioural research rely on each other.
A framework for investigating animal consciousness.
- Psychology, BiologyCurrent topics in behavioral neurosciences
- 2015
This chapter proposes a working definition of consciousness in terms of temporal representation that provides the critical link between internal phenomenology and external behavior and neural structure and discusses behavioral and neural evidence that indicates the capacity for both flexible response and temporal representation.
Cognitive Neuroscience and Animal Consciousness
- Biology, Psychology
- 2014
Cognitive neuroscience is providing comparative data on structural and functional similarities, respectively called homologies and analogies, which suggest that the thalamocortical system is essential for consciousness.
A neural correlate of sensory consciousness in a corvid bird
- Biology, PsychologyScience
- 2020
It is shown that single-neuron responses in the pallial endbrain of crows performing a visual detection task correlate with the birds’ perception about stimulus presence or absence and argued that this is an empirical marker of avian consciousness.
Did Consciousness First Evolve in the Amniotes?
- Psychology, BiologyPsychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice
- 2018
According to the present model, consciousness is not required for a nervous system to display advanced computational capacity, and the use of positive and negative feelings as a common currency to evaluate behavioral options is suggested.
Cephalopod Behavior: From Neural Plasticity to Consciousness
- Biology, PsychologyFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience
- 2021
It is proposed that cephalopods - particularly the octopus - provide a unique test case among invertebrates for examining the properties and conditions that afford a basal faculty of consciousness, and identifies future research directions for the study of consciousness in these tantalizing animals.
Evolutionary aspects of self- and world consciousness in vertebrates
- Psychology, BiologyFront. Hum. Neurosci.
- 2015
It is concluded that basic aspects of consciousness like primary self and core self (based on anoetic and noetic consciousness) are present in many species of vertebrates and that, even self-consciousness (autonoetic consciousness), does not seem to be a prerogative of humans and of some non-human primates but may, to a certain extent, be present in some other mammals and birds.
Consciousness in humans and non-human animals: recent advances and future directions
- Biology, PsychologyFront. Psychol.
- 2013
Recent advances in the understanding of subjectivity in humans and other animals, including empirical, applied, technical, and conceptual insights are summarized, including the evidence for the importance of fronto-parietal connectivity and of top-down processes.
The Evolutionary Rationale for Consciousness
- Psychology, Biology
- 2013
To answer the question of why the authors have consciousness, the following evolutionary trajectory leading to this feature is proposed: Nervous systems appeared for the purpose of orchestrating behavior and became the first neural attribute to evolve that required awareness, and thus the key force in the evolution of consciousness.
Awareness and consciousness in humans and animals – neural and behavioral correlates in an evolutionary perspective
- Biology, PsychologyFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience
- 2022
It was found that the neural markers from studies in humans could also successfully be applied to the mammal and bird data suggesting that species in these animal groups can become subjectively aware of and conscious about perceived stimuli.
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Abstract In a marked departure from past inhibitions about scientific consideration of conscious mental states in animals, the other papers in this symposium review a variety of evidence about what…
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Mammalian and Avian Neuroanatomy and the Question of Consciousness in Birds
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Some birds display behavior reminiscent of the sophisticated cognition and higher levels of consciousness usually associated with mammals, including the ability to fashion tools and to learn vocal…
Possible Levels of Animal Consciousness with Reference to Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus)1
- Biology, Psychology
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It is suggested that species exhibit different levels attuned to their ecological niches, and animals, within their maximum possible level, exhibit different extents of awareness appropriate to particular situations, much like humans who often act without conscious awareness of factors controlling their behavior.
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- Psychology, BiologyConsciousness and Cognition
- 2005
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Consciousness and Complexity
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