Anton Stasche

Chapter in Neuroscience Course Reader

As part of my Bachelor's programme in Cognitive Science, I contributed to a course reader of a regular course in Neurobiopsychology.

For the chapter on theories on the neural correlates of consciousness, I wrote an account on the perception theory of Alva Noe and Kevin O'Regan. According to their approach, our special experience of an individual sensory modality is not due to the activation of certain brain areas. It is rather established through the systematic change in the sensation as a result of an action. In other words, a sensory modality is assumed to be grounded in actively exploring the environment and not bound as such to a sensory organ or structure.

O'Regan & Noe's assumptions went on to form the theoretical foundation of the feelSpace project, a research project in applied neurosciences at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, Germany.

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