Conscious brain, metacognition and schizophrenia

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Authors

BOB Petr PEC Ondrej MISHARA Aaron L. TOUSKOVA Tereza LYSAKER Paul H.

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source International Journal of Psychophysiology
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Central European Institute of Technology

Citation
Web http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167876016300605
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.05.003
Field Neurology, neurosurgery, neurosciences
Keywords Brain binding; Information integration; Metacognition; Schizophrenia
Description Recent findings indicate that the binding and synchronization of distributed neural activities are crucial for cognitive processes and consciousness. In addition, there is increasing evidence that disrupted feature binding is related to experiences of disintegration of consciousness in schizophrenia. These data suggest that the disrupted binding and disintegration of consciousness could be typically related to schizophrenia in terms of Bleuler's concept of "splitting". In this context, deficits in metacognitive capacity in schizophrenia may be conceptualized as a spectrum from more discrete to more synthetic activities, related to specific levels of neural binding and neurocognitive deficits. This review summarizes the recent research on metacognition and its relationship to deficits of conscious awareness that may be found in schizophrenia patients. Deficits in synthetic metacognition are likely linked to the integration of information during specific processes of neural binding. Those in turn may be related to a range of mental activities including reasoning style, learning potential and insight. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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