Awareness in higher brain function

• Osaka Naoyuki

  Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University.

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 高次脳機能とアウェアネス

Abstract

Awareness can be defined as a mental state in which our mind directed to or aware of something and is closely related to consciousness and attention. Awareness has supposed to have three layers : The first layer incorporates a biologically defined arousal state, the second layer involves perceptual awareness in which our mind being aware of external environment featuring selectivity and capacity constraint of the mind, and the third layer, the top level layer, includes awareness of self and others in the social context including theory of mind. As the layer increases related brain region shifts from back to prefrontal areas. Thus, three layered model of human awareness is expandable to the global work space theory of consciousness based on working memory.

Journal

• Higher Brain Function Research

  Higher Brain Function Research 32 (3), 427-432, 2012

  Japan Society for Higher Brain Dysfunction

Keywords

• awareness
• frontal lobe
• consciousness
• executive function
• capacity limitation

Details

• CRID: 1390282680181326464
• NII Article ID: 10031154782
• NII Book ID: AA1182424X
• DOI: 10.2496/hbfr.32.427
• ISSN: 18806554
• ISSN: 13484818
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2012372498
• Text Lang: ja
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