Biology of Consciousness

The Dynamic Core and Global Workspace hypotheses were independently put forward to provide mechanistic and biologically plausible accounts of how brains generate conscious mental content. The Dynamic Core proposes that reentrant neural activity in the thalamocortical system gives rise to conscious...

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Main Authors: Gerald M Edelman, Joseph A Gally, Bernard J Baars
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00004/full