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Hakwan Lau

Team Leader, Consciousness and Cognition · RIKEN Center for Brain Science

Wako, Japan

Research Areas

NeuroimagingConsciousnessNeuroscience

About

Neuroscientist working on higher-order theories of consciousness and perceptual reality monitoring. His research uses neuroimaging and computational modeling to understand how the brain generates subjective experience.

Publications

  • In Consciousness We Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience
  • Empirical Support for Higher-Order Theories of Conscious Awareness
  • Perceptual Reality Monitoring and the Role of Prefrontal Cortex
  • The Mismatch Negativity and the Perceptual Reality Monitoring Framework

Related Guides

Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (HOT)

Rosenthal and Lau's framework proposing consciousness requires higher-order mental representations about our own mental states.

Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)

Penrose and Hameroff's quantum theory proposing consciousness arises from gravitational self-collapse in neuronal microtubules.

Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)

The search for the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept.

Idealism in Philosophy of Mind

Bernardo Kastrup's analytical idealism and the philosophical tradition arguing consciousness is fundamental, not matter.

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