What is the primary function of consciousness in the nervous system? The answer to this
question remains enigmatic, not so much because of a lack of relevant data, but because of …

Background Bodily state is theorised to play a role in perceptual scaling of the environment,
whereby low bodily capacity shifts visuospatial perception, with distances appearing farther …

Through theoretical discussion, literature review, and a computational model, this paper
poses a challenge to the notion that perspective-taking involves a fixed architecture in which …

The perception of beauty is known to be associated with the bodily sensations and
evolutionary implications. However, whether the esthetic preference for natural landscape …

Passive frame theory attempts to illuminate what consciousness is, in mechanistic and
functional terms; it does not address the “implementation” level of analysis (how neurons …

Have Morsella et al. examined the fundamentals of consciousness? An experiment by Bar et
al.(2006) has demonstrated the fundamental aspects of conscious and unconscious …

We expand upon Morsella et al.'s synthesis in the direction of what Gibson (1979) called an
ecological approach to perception. Morsella et al. describe consciousness as a director of …

How do language and vision interact? Specifically, what impact can language have on
visual processing, especially related to spatial memory? What are typically considered …

I argue that the scope and strength of unconscious perception have been overestimated in
extant theories. I describe an unconscious binding perspective, and how in conjunction with …

Cognitive penetration is the assumption that non-sensory factors influence sensory
perception at the core level of sensory processing, thus generating or modifying the contents …