Awareness in logic and cognitive neuroscience

Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

doi:10.1109/COGINF.2002.1039293

Awareness in logic and cognitive neuroscience

Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen^*

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Department of Religion and Philosophy

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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
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002
Editors	Yingxu Wang, Ronald H. Johnston, Michael R. Smith
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	155-162
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	0769517242, 9780769517247
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINF.2002.1039293
Publication status	Published - Aug 2002
Event	1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002 - Calgary, Canada Duration: 19 Aug 2002 → 20 Aug 2002 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8057/proceeding

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics

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Conference	1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Calgary
Period	19/08/02 → 20/08/02
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8057/proceeding

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Artificial Intelligence
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Information Systems

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awareness
implicit/explicit distinction
Logic
neur oscience
possible-worlds semantics

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Pietarinen, A-V 2002, Awareness in logic and cognitive neuroscience. in Y Wang, RH Johnston & MR Smith (eds), Proceedings - 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, IEEE, pp. 155-162, 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002, Calgary, Canada, 19/08/02. https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINF.2002.1039293

Awareness in logic and cognitive neuroscience. / Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko.

Proceedings - 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2002. ed. / Yingxu Wang; Ronald H. Johnston; Michael R. Smith. IEEE, 2002. p. 155-162 (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics).

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