Characterizing Consciousness: From Cognition to the Clinic? (Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences)
Language: English
Pages: 202
ISBN: 3642180140
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Fifteen of the foremost scientists in this field presented testable theoretical models of consciousness and discussed how our understanding of the role that consciousness plays in our cognitive processes is being refined with some surprising results.
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“intentional” architecture fails to capture the unity of experience captured by conscious awareness, and (4) it does not explain the subjective “what it is like to be. . .” aspects of consciousness, including qualia. This is not a complete list, but it is enough to have a stab at. (1) The mysterious step in the “decision to engage” is the mechanism underlying circuit selection. It is poorly understood in the simplest of perceptual decisions. That said, it is a mechanism, and the notion that it.
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Neuronal group (A) with two other groups (B and C) can be predicted by their patterns of precise synchronization (Fig. 1c), as has recently been demonstrated for interactions of triplets of neuronal groups from within and between areas in awake cat and monkey visual cortex (Womelsdorf et al. 2007). This study measured the trial-by-trial changes in correlated amplitude fluctuation and changes in precise synchronization between pair AB and pair AC using the spontaneous variation of neuronal.
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