INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL for ADVANCED STUDIES Cognitive
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, SISSA-ISAS, Trieste, Italy. * Bridging Access to Consciousness, Cognitive Control and Metacognition : Toward an Application to schizophrenia Sarah Kouhou, PhD Thesis, * Supervisor: Tim Shallice, PhD, Professor * External Reviewers: Paolo Brambilla, M.D PhD Jérôme Sackur, M.D PhD Acknowledgments I would like to thank all the people who helped me, knowingly or not, to complete that work: My supervisor, Tim, for his huge patience and his critical empiricism; my aunt, Marie, for having been there when I needed ; my friends or colleagues in SISSA, especially Georgette and Shima, for their kindness; the Abdu Salam Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in general and overall the library staff, just for providing me with a nice space for work, serious, stimulating and convivial. I also thank Guillaume, for having given me energy and force at the very right moment. I am also very thankful to Paolo, who showed an interest in my proposal to work with patients and who contributed a lot to accessing the Health Center. Elisa Maso, who was very efficient and available to make me interact with patients, although she was very busy. I am also thankful to the patients themselves, who devoted their time and psychological resources, for free. I thank also all the subjects who participated to my tiresome experiments, with patience, kindness and seriousness. Table of contents PART I: Bridging Access to Consciousness, Cognitive Control and Metacognition, A dense overview 1 1. Demonstrating the existence of unconscious processing before all 5 2. Consciousness as a capacity-limited Global Workspace 9 2.1 Three pieces of behavioral evidence for a central Global Workspace 2.2 Neural correlates of a central Global Workspace: a causal role of prefrontal cortex? 3.
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