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. 2019 Jul;23(7):560-571.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.04.007. Epub 2019 May 29.

The Global Workspace Needs Metacognition

Nicholas Shea  1 , Chris D Frith  2
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The Global Workspace Needs Metacognition

Nicholas Shea et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2019 Jul.
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Abstract

The two leading cognitive accounts of consciousness currently available concern global workspace (a form of working memory) and metacognition. There is relatively little interaction between these two approaches and it has even been suggested that the two accounts are rival and separable alternatives. Here, we argue that the successful function of a global workspace critically requires that the broadcast representations include a metacognitive component.

Keywords: confidence; consciousness; global availability; metarepresentation; report; working memory.

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