Advanced search
Publication Cover
Cognitive Neuroscience
Current Debates, Research & Reports
Volume 2, 2011 - Issue 2
Submit an article Journal homepage
4,198
Views
97
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Discussion Paper

Human consciousness and its relationship to social neuroscience: A novel hypothesis

Michael S. A. Graziano Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USACorrespondence[email protected]
&
Sabine Kastner Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Pages 98-113 | Published online: 21 Mar 2011

Citations (97)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (5)

Michael S. A. Graziano, Arvid Guterstam, Branden J. Bio & Andrew I. Wilterson. (2020) Toward a standard model of consciousness: Reconciling the attention schema, global workspace, higher-order thought, and illusionist theories. Cognitive Neuropsychology 37:3-4, pages 155-172.
Read now
Jacob Berger, Bence Nanay & Jake Quilty-Dunn. (2018) Unconscious perceptual justification*. Inquiry 61:5-6, pages 569-589.
Read now
Marco Cascella, Vincenzo Schiavone, Maria Rosaria Muzio & Arturo Cuomo. (2016) Consciousness fluctuation during general anesthesia: a theoretical approach to anesthesia awareness and memory modulation. Current Medical Research and Opinion 32:8, pages 1351-1359.
Read now
Aaron Schurger. (2014) Intentions and voluntary actions: Reframing the problem. Cognitive Neuroscience 5:3-4, pages 213-214.
Read now
Jamie Ward. (2013) Recent download statistics for Cognitive Neuroscience . Cognitive Neuroscience 4:2, pages 63-65.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (92)

Gerardo Iovane & Riccardo Emanuele Landi. (2023) From Smart Sensing to consciousness: An info-structural model of computational consciousness for non-interacting agents. Cognitive Systems Research 81, pages 93-106.
Crossref
Bjørn Grinde. (2023) Describing and explaining consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2023:1.
Crossref
Anton Arkhipov. (2022) Non-Separability of Physical Systems as a Foundation of Consciousness. Entropy 24:11, pages 1539.
Crossref
Konstantin Volzhenin, Jean-Pierre Changeux & Guillaume Dumas. (2022) Multilevel development of cognitive abilities in an artificial neural network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119:39.
Crossref
Maik Niemeck. (2022) Revisiting the Argument for Non-Conceptual Self-Consciousness Based on the Meaning of “I”. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
Crossref
Fabio Masina, Rachele Pezzetta, Sara Lago, Dante Mantini, Cristina Scarpazza & Giorgio Arcara. (2022) Disconnection from prediction: A systematic review on the role of right temporoparietal junction in aberrant predictive processing. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 138, pages 104713.
Crossref
Irem Duman, Isabell Sophia Ehmann, Alicia Ronnie Gonsalves, Zeynep Gültekin, Jonathan Van den Berckt & Cees van Leeuwen. (2022) The No-Report Paradigm: A Revolution in Consciousness Research?. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16.
Crossref
Samuele Bolotta & Guillaume Dumas. (2022) Social Neuro AI: Social Interaction as the “Dark Matter” of AI. Frontiers in Computer Science 4.
Crossref
Michael S. A. Graziano. (2022) A conceptual framework for consciousness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119:18.
Crossref
Anthony J. Cotraccia. (2022) Trauma as Absence: A Biopsychosocial-AIP Definition of Trauma and Its Treatment in EMDR Therapy. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research 16:3, pages 145-155.
Crossref
Andy Wai Kan Yeung, Cody A. Cushing & Alan L.F. Lee. (2022) A bibliometric evaluation of the impact of theories of consciousness in academia and on social media. Consciousness and Cognition 100, pages 103296.
Crossref
Georg Northoff & Federico Zilio. (2022) Temporo-spatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC) – Bridging the gap of neuronal activity and phenomenal states. Behavioural Brain Research 424, pages 113788.
Crossref
Nicolas Goupil, Liuba Papeo & Jean‐Rémy Hochmann. (2022) Visual perception grounding of social cognition in preverbal infants. Infancy 27:2, pages 210-231.
Crossref
Aaron Schurger & Michael Graziano. (2022) Consciousness explained or described?. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2022:1.
Crossref
Artur Luczak & Yoshimasa Kubo. (2022) Predictive Neuronal Adaptation as a Basis for Consciousness. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 15.
Crossref
Walter Glannon. (2021) Ethical and social aspects of neural prosthetics. Progress in Biomedical Engineering 4:1, pages 012004.
Crossref
Sang-Yeon Lee, Munyoung Chang, Byungjoon Kwon, Byung Yoon Choi, Ja-Won Koo, Taesup Moon, Dirk De Ridder, Sven Vanneste & Jae-Jin Song. (2021) Is the posterior cingulate cortex an on-off switch for tinnitus?: A comparison between hearing loss subjects with and without tinnitus. Hearing Research 411, pages 108356.
Crossref
معين النصراوين, أحمد خزاعلة, هيام التاج & رامي الشقران. (2021) مستوي الوعي الذاتي لدى أمهات الأطفال ذوي اضطراب طيف التوحد وعلاقته بالاحتراق بالنفسي. مجلة جامعة الشارقة للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية 17:2A, pages 301-328.
Crossref
Asael Y Sklar, Rasha Kardosh & Ran R Hassin. (2021) From non-conscious processing to conscious events: a minimalist approach. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2021:2.
Crossref
Mitsuo Kawato & Aurelio Cortese. (2021) From internal models toward metacognitive AI. Biological Cybernetics 115:5, pages 415-430.
Crossref
İbrahim IŞIK, M. Emin TAĞLUK & Esme IŞIK. (2021) Nano Sistemlerde Hücreler Arası Haberleşmenin Analiz Edilmesi. Journal of Intelligent Systems: Theory and Applications 4:2, pages 203-2011.
Crossref
Camilo Miguel Signorelli, Joanna Szczotka & Robert Prentner. (2021) Explanatory profiles of models of consciousness - towards a systematic classification. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2021:2.
Crossref
Andrew I. Wilterson & Michael S. A. Graziano. (2021) The attention schema theory in a neural network agent: Controlling visuospatial attention using a descriptive model of attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118:33.
Crossref
Naotsugu Tsuchiya & Hayato Saigo. (2021) A relational approach to consciousness: categories of level and contents of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2021:2.
Crossref
Andrew I. Wilterson, Samuel A. Nastase, Branden J. BioArvid Guterstam & Michael S. A. Graziano. (2021) Attention, awareness, and the right temporoparietal junction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118:25.
Crossref
Paula Rubio-Fernandez. (2021) Color discriminability makes over-specification efficient: Theoretical analysis and empirical evidence. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8:1.
Crossref
Emmanuelle Bellot, Etienne Abassi & Liuba Papeo. (2021) Moving Toward versus Away from Another: How Body Motion Direction Changes the Representation of Bodies and Actions in the Visual Cortex. Cerebral Cortex 31:5, pages 2670-2685.
Crossref
Arvid Guterstam, Branden J Bio, Andrew I Wilterson & Michael Graziano. (2021) Temporo-parietal cortex involved in modeling one’s own and others’ attention. eLife 10.
Crossref
Arvid Guterstam & Michael S. A. Graziano. (2020) Visual motion assists in social cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117:50, pages 32165-32168.
Crossref
Andrew I. Wilterson, Casey M. Kemper, Noah Kim, Taylor W. Webb, Alexandra M.W. Reblando & Michael S.A. Graziano. (2020) Attention control and the attention schema theory of consciousness. Progress in Neurobiology 195, pages 101844.
Crossref
Georg Northoff & Victor Lamme. (2020) Neural signs and mechanisms of consciousness: Is there a potential convergence of theories of consciousness in sight?. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 118, pages 568-587.
Crossref
Roberto Bottini & Christian F. Doeller. (2020) Knowledge Across Reference Frames: Cognitive Maps and Image Spaces. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24:8, pages 606-619.
Crossref
Nidhi Sharma & R. K. Aggarwal. 2020. Ontology‐Based Information Retrieval for Healthcare Systems. Ontology‐Based Information Retrieval for Healthcare Systems 293 311 .
Arvid Guterstam & Michael S.A. Graziano. (2020) Implied motion as a possible mechanism for encoding other people’s attention. Progress in Neurobiology 190, pages 101797.
Crossref
Arvid Guterstam, Andrew I. Wilterson, Davis Wachtell & Michael S. A. Graziano. (2020) Other people’s gaze encoded as implied motion in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117:23, pages 13162-13167.
Crossref
Cecilia Heyes, Dan Bang, Nicholas Shea, Christopher D. Frith & Stephen M. Fleming. (2020) Knowing Ourselves Together: The Cultural Origins of Metacognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24:5, pages 349-362.
Crossref
George A. Mashour, Pieter Roelfsema, Jean-Pierre Changeux & Stanislas Dehaene. (2020) Conscious Processing and the Global Neuronal Workspace Hypothesis. Neuron 105:5, pages 776-798.
Crossref
Axel Cleeremans, Dalila Achoui, Arnaud Beauny, Lars Keuninckx, Jean-Remy Martin, Santiago Muñoz-Moldes, Laurène Vuillaume & Adélaïde de Heering. (2020) Learning to Be Conscious. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24:2, pages 112-123.
Crossref
Etienne Abassi & Liuba Papeo. (2020) The Representation of Two-Body Shapes in the Human Visual Cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience 40:4, pages 852-863.
Crossref
Ranulfo Romo & Román Rossi-Pool. (2020) Turning Touch into Perception. Neuron 105:1, pages 16-33.
Crossref
Marco Cascella. 2020. General Anesthesia Research. General Anesthesia Research 1 33 .
Georg Northoff, Naotsugu Tsuchiya & Hayato Saigo. (2019) Mathematics and the Brain: A Category Theoretical Approach to Go Beyond the Neural Correlates of Consciousness. Entropy 21:12, pages 1234.
Crossref
J. H. van Hateren. (2019) A theory of consciousness: computation, algorithm, and neurobiological realization. Biological Cybernetics 113:4, pages 357-372.
Crossref
Yueren Zhao, Yoshihiro Kai & Tetsuya Tanioka. (2019) Discovering Humanoid Robot Consciousness Within Caring Science. International Journal for Human Caring 23:2, pages 121-131.
Crossref
S. A. Hosseini & M.-B. Naghibi-Sistani. (2019) A computationally bio-inspired framework of brain activities based on cognitive processes for estimating the depth of anesthesia. Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine 42:2, pages 465-480.
Crossref
George E. Marcus, Nicholas A. Valentino, Pavlos Vasilopoulos & Martial Foucault. (2019) Applying the Theory of Affective Intelligence to Support for Authoritarian Policies and Parties. Political Psychology 40:S1, pages 109-139.
Crossref
Arvid Guterstam, Hope H. Kean, Taylor W. Webb, Faith S. Kean & Michael S. A. Graziano. (2018) Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an invisible, force-carrying beam projecting from the eyes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116:1, pages 328-333.
Crossref
Angela V. Spalatro, Federico Amianto, Zirui Huang, Federico D’Agata, Mauro Bergui, Giovanni Abbate Daga, Secondo Fassino & Georg Northoff. (2020) Neuronal variability of Resting State activity in Eating Disorders: increase and decoupling in Ventral Attention Network and relation with clinical symptoms. European Psychiatry 55, pages 10-17.
Crossref
Brian B. Boutwell. (2018) On variability & human consciousness. Heliyon 4:11, pages e00905.
Crossref
A. Ian Glendon & Sharon Clarke. 2018. Human Safety and Risk Management. Human Safety and Risk Management 304 339 .
Ezequiel Mikulan, Eugenia Hesse, Lucas Sedeño, Tristán Bekinschtein, Mariano Sigman, María del Carmen García, Walter Silva, Carlos Ciraolo, Adolfo M. García & Agustín Ibáñez. (2018) Intracranial high-γ connectivity distinguishes wakefulness from sleep. NeuroImage 169, pages 265-277.
Crossref
Branden J. Bio, Taylor W. Webb & Michael S. A. Graziano. (2018) Projecting one’s own spatial bias onto others during a theory-of-mind task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115:7.
Crossref
Michael S. A. Graziano. (2017) The Attention Schema Theory: A Foundation for Engineering Artificial Consciousness. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 4.
Crossref
Itzhak Fried, Patrick Haggard, Biyu J. He & Aaron Schurger. (2017) Volition and Action in the Human Brain: Processes, Pathologies, and Reasons. The Journal of Neuroscience 37:45, pages 10842-10847.
Crossref
Liuba Papeo, Moritz F. Wurm, Nikolaas N. Oosterhof & Alfonso Caramazza. (2017) The neural representation of human versus nonhuman bipeds and quadrupeds. Scientific Reports 7:1.
Crossref
Kajsa M. Igelström & Michael S.A. Graziano. (2017) The inferior parietal lobule and temporoparietal junction: A network perspective. Neuropsychologia 105, pages 70-83.
Crossref
José F. Fontanari. (2017) Awareness improves problem-solving performance. Cognitive Systems Research 45, pages 52-58.
Crossref
Ivaylo Borislavov Iotchev & Hein Thomas van Schie. (2017) When a model becomes the real thing: A neuro-cognitive account of ‘demonic’ possession. Medical Hypotheses 106, pages 35-40.
Crossref
Paola Mengotti, Pascasie L. Dombert, Gereon R. Fink & Simone Vossel. (2017) Disruption of the Right Temporoparietal Junction Impairs Probabilistic Belief Updating. The Journal of Neuroscience 37:22, pages 5419-5428.
Crossref
Roger Orpwood. (2017) Information and the Origin of Qualia. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 11.
Crossref
Jean-Pierre Changeux. (2017) Climbing Brain Levels of Organisation from Genes to Consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 21:3, pages 168-181.
Crossref
Jonathan D. Cohen. 2017. The Wiley Handbook of Cognitive Control. The Wiley Handbook of Cognitive Control 1 28 .
M.S.A. Graziano & T.W. Webb. 2017. Evolution of Nervous Systems. Evolution of Nervous Systems 547 554 .
S. Kastner. 2017. Evolution of Nervous Systems. Evolution of Nervous Systems 237 256 .
Taylor W. WebbKajsa M. Igelström, Aaron Schurger & Michael S. A. Graziano. (2016) Cortical networks involved in visual awareness independent of visual attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:48, pages 13923-13928.
Crossref
Harry Haroutioun Haladjian & Carlos Montemayor. (2016) Artificial consciousness and the consciousness-attention dissociation. Consciousness and Cognition 45, pages 210-225.
Crossref
Ana PesquitaCraig S. ChapmanJames T. Enns. (2016) Humans are sensitive to attention control when predicting others’ actions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:31, pages 8669-8674.
Crossref
Taylor W. Webb, Hope H. Kean & Michael S. A. Graziano. (2016) Effects of Awareness on the Control of Attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 28:6, pages 842-851.
Crossref
Kajsa M. Igelström, Taylor W. Webb, Yin T. Kelly & Michael S. A. Graziano. (2016) Topographical Organization of Attentional, Social, and Memory Processes in the Human Temporoparietal Cortex. eneuro 3:2, pages ENEURO.0060-16.2016.
Crossref
Gary Bruno Schmid. (2016) Signalübertragung in den Nerven und die Quantum- Mind-Hypothese. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Ganzheitsmedizin / Swiss Journal of Integrative Medicine 28:4, pages 231-240.
Crossref
Naotsugu Tsuchiya & Christof Koch. 2016. The Neurology of Conciousness. The Neurology of Conciousness 71 91 .
Dirk Scheele, Christine Schwering, Jed T. Elison, Robert Spunt, Wolfgang Maier & René Hurlemann. (2015) A human tendency to anthropomorphize is enhanced by oxytocin. European Neuropsychopharmacology 25:10, pages 1817-1823.
Crossref
Pablo Lanillos, Joao Filipe Ferreira & Jorge Dias. (2015) Designing an artificial attention system for social robots. Designing an artificial attention system for social robots.
Wu Kun & Joseph E. Brenner. (2014) An Informational Ontology and Epistemology of Cognition. Foundations of Science 20:3, pages 249-279.
Crossref
Spas Getov, Ryota Kanai, Bahador Bahrami & Geraint Rees. (2015) Human brain structure predicts individual differences in preconscious evaluation of facial dominance and trustworthiness. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 10:5, pages 690-699.
Crossref
Aaron SchurgerIoannis SarigiannidisLionel Naccache, Jacobo D. SittStanislas Dehaene. (2015) Cortical activity is more stable when sensory stimuli are consciously perceived. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:16.
Crossref
Franco Fabbro, Salvatore M. Aglioti, Massimo Bergamasco, Andrea Clarici & Jaak Panksepp. (2015) Evolutionary aspects of self- and world consciousness in vertebrates. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9.
Crossref
Michael S. A. Graziano & Taylor W. Webb. (2014) A Mechanistic Theory of Consciousness. International Journal of Machine Consciousness 06:02, pages 163-176.
Crossref
Ken A. Paller & Satoru Suzuki. (2014) Response to Block et al.: first-person perspectives are both necessary and troublesome for consciousness science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 18:11, pages 557-558.
Crossref
Amanda V. Utevsky & Michael L. Platt. (2014) Status and the Brain. PLoS Biology 12:9, pages e1001941.
Crossref
Ken A. Paller & Satoru Suzuki. (2014) The source of consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 18:8, pages 387-389.
Crossref
Michael S. A. Graziano. (2014) Speculations on the Evolution of Awareness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26:6, pages 1300-1304.
Crossref
Tao Jin & Boryung Ju. (2014) Towards Understanding the Perceptions of Information Professionals about Competitive Intelligence Work. Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 13:02, pages 1450011.
Crossref
J. M. Shine & R. Shine. (2014) Delegation to automaticity: the driving force for cognitive evolution?. Frontiers in Neuroscience 8.
Crossref
Yin T. Kelly, Taylor W. Webb, Jeffrey D. Meier, Michael J. Arcaro & Michael S. A. Graziano. (2014) Attributing awareness to oneself and to others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111:13, pages 5012-5017.
Crossref
Sumedrea Cristian Mihai, Mosoiu Corneliu & Ilie Sandina. (2014) Dimensions of the Personality of the Military Students from Land Forces Academy of Sibiu. A Psychometric Approach.. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 127, pages 479-483.
Crossref
Joy J. Geng & Simone Vossel. (2013) Re-evaluating the role of TPJ in attentional control: Contextual updating?. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 37:10, pages 2608-2620.
Crossref
Yulia S. Shkurko. (2012) The Compatibility Between Sociological and Cognitive Neuroscientific Ideas on Consciousness: Is a Neurosociology of Consciousness Possible?. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 47:1, pages 123-141.
Crossref
Bert Timmermans, Leonhard Schilbach, Antoine Pasquali & Axel Cleeremans. (2012) Higher order thoughts in action: consciousness as an unconscious re-description process. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367:1594, pages 1412-1423.
Crossref
Gennady Shkliarevsky. (2022) The Mind’s Eye: De-Mystifying Consciousness. SSRN Electronic Journal.
Crossref
Benjamin Bleier. (2019) Information Flow Theory (IFT): A General Theory of Biologic and Artificial Consciousness. SSRN Electronic Journal.
Crossref
David Jimenez-Gomez. (2019) Co-Evolution of Consciousness and Biases That Make Humans Behave Against Their Own Interest. SSRN Electronic Journal.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.