Publication: The cartesian folk theater: People conceptualize consciousness as a spatio-temporally localized process in the human brain
The cartesian folk theater: People conceptualize consciousness as a spatio-temporally localized process in the human brain
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Forstmann, M., & Burgmer, P. (2022). The cartesian folk theater: People conceptualize consciousness as a spatio-temporally localized process in the human brain. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 151(4), 781–803. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001108
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The present research (total N = 2,057) tested whether people's folk conception of consciousness aligns with the notion of a "Cartesian Theater" (Dennett, 1991). More precisely, we tested the hypotheses that people believe that consciousness happens in a single, confined area (vs. multiple dispersed areas) in the human brain, and that it (partly) happens after the brain finished analyzing all available information. Further, we investigated how these beliefs are related to participants' neuroscientific knowledge as well as their relianc
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- Forstmann, Matthias
- Burgmer, Pascal
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Forstmann, M., & Burgmer, P. (2022). The cartesian folk theater: People conceptualize consciousness as a spatio-temporally localized process in the human brain. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 151(4), 781–803. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001108
