Month: October 2020

When the Memory System Gets Ahead of Itself

Humans are adept at learning and exploiting statistical regularities to predict future events from current experience. A recent paper by Sherman and Turk-Browne demonstrates that statistical regularities bias the hippocampus toward representing future states over current experience and reduce the degree to which current experience is encoded into memory. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. […]

Published on October 7, 2020

Is Learning the Cognitive Basis of Consciousness? The Moral Implications of SOMA

In a recent article, Cleeremans et al. [1] presented the self-organizing metarepresentational account (SOMA) of consciousness. According to SOMA, consciousness emerges as result of the development of a second-order system that subtends phenomenal experiences. Central to SOMA is a self–other loop that lets the individual develop a model of agenthood by observing and interacting with […]

Published on October 7, 2020

Subscribe & Gain

null Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge in pioneering Self-Enhancement Science for the Success of Society. With a keen interest in exploring the untapped potential of the human mind, Dr. Lowemann has […]

Published on October 7, 2020