title: Skill, corporality and alerting capacity in an account of sensory consciousness.
abstract: We suggest that within a skill-based, sensorimotor approach to sensory consciousness, two measurable properties of perceivers' interaction with the environment, "corporality" and "alerting capacity", explain why sensory stimulation is experienced as having a "sensory feel", unlike thoughts or memories. We propose that the notions of "corporality" and "alerting capacity" make possible the construction of a "phenomenality plot", which charts in a principled way the degree to which conscious phenomena are experienced as having a sensory quality.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Institut de Psychologie, Centre Universitaire de Boulogne, 71, avenue Edouard Vaillant, 92774 Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kevin O'Regan
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Myin
authors.forename: Alva
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Noë
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011603:Psychophysiology; D012677:Sensation