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Time, action, and consciousness.

Axel Cleeremans1, Jean-Christophe Sarrazin

  • 1Cognitive Science Research Unit, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 191, Avenue F.-D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. axcleer@ulb.ac.be

Human Movement Science
|March 10, 2007
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Consciousness requires time for information processing. Sufficient processing time allows for strong, stable representations, enabling conscious awareness and control over actions.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Philosophy of Mind

Background:

  • Time is a critical factor in consciousness and information processing.
  • Subliminal perception, implicit learning, and memory studies highlight time-dependent processing.
  • Attribution of authorship for actions is influenced by processing time.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the role of time in various aspects of consciousness.
  • To propose a unified understanding of consciousness based on processing time.
  • To connect findings from diverse cognitive domains under a time-centric framework.

Main Methods:

  • Overview of findings from subliminal perception, implicit learning, memory, and action awareness studies.
  • Theoretical analysis linking processing time to representation quality.

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  • Discussion of global competition, constraint satisfaction, and reentrant processing.

    • Main Results:

    • Conscious awareness and cognitive control are dependent on the time available for processing.
    • Representation quality (strength, stability, distinctiveness) is crucial for conscious access.
    • Sufficient time allows for global competition and reentrant processing, leading to high-quality representations.

    Conclusions:

    • Consciousness is a time-dependent process, not a static state.
    • The quality of neural representations, shaped by time-limited processing, determines conscious experience.
    • Viewing consciousness as a process offers a unifying perspective on diverse cognitive phenomena.