Abstract
Cognitive neuroscience has provided important insights into the notions like implicit versus explicit information processing in perception, object identification, memory, and general information retrieval. Even more topically, neuroscience has brought the notion of awareness in the forefront. of human knowledge. Yet the logical reflections of awareness and the implicit/explicit distinction have remained by and large uncharted. To improve on this situation, we introduce cognitively motivated logical operators related to actual experimental aspects of awareness into the modal language. Their semantics is given by grounding logical senses of awareness on a dynamic structure of possible worlds. We show that many neuroscientific findings on neural dysfunctions can be made to contribute to the logical level of investigation. In particular, the logics of awareness are enriched by experimental findings on brain and cognitive disorders such as blindsight, unilateral neglect, prosopagnosia, and implicit memory.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002 |
| Editors | Ronald H. Johnston, Michael R. Smith, Yingxu Wang |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 155-162 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 0769517242, 9780769517247 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jan 1 2002 |
| Event | 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002 - Calgary, Canada Duration: Aug 19 2002 → Aug 20 2002 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings - 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002 |
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Conference
| Conference | 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002 |
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| Country | Canada |
| City | Calgary |
| Period | 8/19/02 → 8/20/02 |
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Keywords
- awareness
- implicit/explicit distinction
- Logic
- neur oscience
- possible-worlds semantics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Information Systems
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Awareness in logic and cognitive neuroscience. / Pietarinen, A.
Proceedings - 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002. ed. / Ronald H. Johnston; Michael R. Smith; Yingxu Wang. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2002. p. 155-162 1039293 (Proceedings - 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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