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Morten Overgaard

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience · Aarhus University

Aarhus, DenmarkWebsite

Research Areas

ConsciousnessNeuroscience

About

Cognitive neuroscientist who developed the Perceptual Awareness Scale (PAS) for measuring graded levels of conscious experience. Studies the relationship between attention and consciousness.

Publications

  • The Perceptual Awareness Scale and its relationship to visual perception
  • Visual sensation is a graded phenomenon

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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