Psychologie Cognitive Expérimentale

Stanislas DehaenePsychologie cognitive expérimentaleCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-2026Colloque: Seeing the Mind, Educating the BrainPart 1: Seeing and Decoding the MindConscious Perception: The Propagation of Selection Signals through the Global Neuronal WorkspaceColloque - Pieter Roelfsema: Conscious Perception: The Propagation of Selection Signals through the Global Neuronal WorkspacePieter RoelfsemaNetherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam & Institut de la Vision, ParisRésuméhe Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) theory (Baars, 1988; Dehaene et al., 1998) proposes that information must be broadcast across widely distributed networks to enter conscious awareness. But what exactly is the information that is exchanged? I will argue that the GNW provides the substrate for the spread of selection signals and use this perspective to refine the distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness.Access consciousness corresponds to the information currently circulating within the GNW. In perception, this