title: Hybrid Social Cognitive Models, Meta-Consciousness, and representations.
abstract: Abstract Hybrid social cognitive models, based not only on simulation, are desirable, especially in complex scenarios. It is unclear, however, which neural systems support non simulative processes. Furthermore, the proposal that consciousness is a form of representation of attention, while novel, relies on a traditional concept of representation. Recent ﬁndings suggest an ontological priority of representations, where the representation and the thing being represented are not distinct at all.
authors.affiliation: a Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences , Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA , CA , USA.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iacoboni