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A EC funded project aimed at improving social competences of virtual agents through artificial consciousness based on the Attention Schema Theory... The ASTOUND project will provide an Integrative Approach For Awareness Engineering to establish consciousness in machines... The Attention Schema Theory (AST) , first conceived by Dr. Michael Graziano (Princeton Neuroscience Institute, part of ASTOUND's team), explains the brain basis of subjective awareness in a mechanistic and scientifically testable manner. According to the AST, the brain is an information-processing device with the capacity to focus its processing resources more on some signals than on others.