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METAWARE

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Behavioral and neural determinants of metacognition and self awareness in human...
Behavioral and neural determinants of metacognition and self awareness in human adults and infants Proposal summary. Understanding the psychological and neurobiological determinants of consciousness is fundamental. Yet, the main trend focusing on how the front of the brain (prefrontal cortex) interacts with the back (sensory c... Proposal summary. Understanding the psychological and neurobiological determinants of consciousness is fundamental. Yet, the main trend focusing on how the front of the brain (prefrontal cortex) interacts with the back (sensory cortex) for accessing perceptual contents limits our understanding of the information coding schemas underlying consciousness. Here, we explore these informational properties in adults and infants from 3 novel perspectives: sleep, self-consciousness and metacognition. First, we will study unconscious processes in the full absence of consciousness, including self-consciousness and metacognition, by focusing on the sleeping brain’s ability to process and learn information from its environment. While most studies on subliminal perception measured unconscious processes intermixed with conscious ones, studying their impact in the sleeping brain will provide new insights on a broader and more natural type of unconscious. Secondly, we will explore the fundamental issue of whether multiple agents can share information and each other’s conscious access mechanisms, without being aware of it. Using a novel approach called the Reversed Perspective Paradigm, we will study if access to conscious content can be determined by another agent’s actions and sensory processing while the agent is lured to believe she owns these access mechanisms. We aim at challenging the long-held conviction that consciousness is a paradigm of privacy, by breaking it using virtual reality and objective methods from psychology. Finally, we will attempt to answer the two fundamental issues of whether infants have a capacity for metacognition (do they know they know) and whether they experience self-consciousness (do they feel themselves as a unitary entity). Examining these self-reflection mechanisms, through behavioural and EEG techniques, will address the issue of whether humans in the initial state have a primitive self, or are actually unconscious about their own person. ver más
31/01/2021
ENS
2M€
Duración del proyecto: 63 meses Fecha Inicio: 2015-10-19
Fecha Fin: 2021-01-31

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2021-01-31
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ERC-CoG-2014: ERC Consolidator Grant
Cerrada hace 10 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 2M€
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ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE No se ha especificado una descripción o un objeto social para esta compañía.
Perfil tecnológico TRL 4-5