Maria Luiza Iennaco de Vasconcelos

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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

graduation at Psicologia from Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (2021) and master's at Philosophy from Universidade de São Paulo (2023). Has experience in Philosophy, acting on the following subjects: inferência ativa, consciência, ciências cognitivas, filosofia da mente and processamento preditivo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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Scholarships in Brazil

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Attention is a widely studied phenomenon in philosophy and cognitive sciences. However, the scientific literature on the subject presents several ambiguities and inaccuracies regarding its definition and attributions, suggesting the existence of epistemological difficulties and even ontological divergences in its study. This research project aims to contribute to the eventual attenuation …
The hows and whys of attention: a neurophilosophical exploration based on active inference, BP.DR
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The present Research Project aims to contribute to the advancement of the neuro-philosophical debate about consciousness, as well as the verification of some possible applications of a particular model of philosophical understanding in a prominent contemporary framework underlying the current scenario of empirical research on human cognition. To do so, we will start from the Dennettian as…
An investigation into the interrelationship between the Multiple Drafts model of consciousness and the Predictive Processing theory, BP.MS

Scholarships abroad

Ongoing (most recent)

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This research project aims to contribute to a preliminary investigation of the potential of Hierarchical Predictive Coding (HPC) and Active Inference models to encompass different domains of neurocognition and behavior. It promotes a non-reductionist neuro-philosophical analysis of how these models address attention - a boundary phenomenon that seems central both to action and perception.…
The current status of attention in predictive models of cognition: a non-reductionist neurophilosophical analysis, BE.EP.DR

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2 / 2	Completed scholarships in Brazil
1 / 1	Ongoing scholarships abroad
3 / 3	All Scholarships

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Osvaldo Frota Pessoa Junior

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