Empirical support for higher-order theories of conscious awareness.

By H. Lau, David Rosenthal. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2011

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A signal detection theoretic approach for estimating metacognitive sensitivity from confidence ratings. (2012, methodology): “For instance, on some models, type 2 decisions are based upon further processing of the same information used to make type 1 decisions (Lau & Rosenthal, 2011; Maniscalco & Lau, 2010; Pleskac & Busemeyer, 2010).”
To belief or not belief: Children’s theory of mind (2014, background): “A second network then takes as input, the output from the first network, and accounts for explicit knowledge (Clark & Karmiloff-Smith, 1993; Lau & Rosenthal, 2011).”
Metacognition: computation, biology and function (2012, background): “Indeed, the link between introspective reports and PFC function has recently been deployed in support of HOT theory [40].”
Self-Evaluation of Decision-Making: A General Bayesian Framework for Metacognitive Computation (2017, unknown): “…judgment and decision-making (Lichtenstein, Fischhoff, & Phillips, 1982), education (Veenman, Wilhelm, & Beishuizen, 2004), social psychology (Heatherton, 2011), consciousness science (Lau & Rosenthal, 2011), and clinical disorders (David, Bedford, Wiffen, & Gilleen, 2012; Goldstein et al., 2009).”
Toward a computational theory of conscious processing (2013, unknown): “For instance, the hypothesis that conscious perception coincides with the ability to deploy higher-order thoughts or metacognition (the brain’s ability to represent its own knowledge states) [45] does not bode well with evidence that self-monitoring, error detection and confidence assignment partial”
On the link between conscious function and general intelligence in humans and machines (2022, background): “HOT proposes that it is only meta-represented information which is consciously accessible (Flavell, 1979), and these meta-representations are thought to be made possible via the activity of the prefrontal cortex (Lau & Rosenthal, 2011).”
Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: A narrative review of human intracranial research (2025, unknown): “…hold that a first-order representation of a perceptual content in sensory cortices is insufficient for this content to become conscious, and that a higher-order representation/indexing, generally predicted to be in the prefrontal cortex, is needed ( Brown et al., 2019 ; Lau and Rosenthal, 2011 ).”
Hierarchical consciousness: the Nested Observer Windows model (2024, methodology): “Recent extrapolations posit that the neural mechanism for HOT theory is reentrant signals through loops, e.g. the thalamocortical system (Lau and Rosenthal 2011).”