A Plastic Temporal Brain Code for Conscious State Generation
Consciousness is known to be limited in processing capacity and often described in terms of a unique processing stream across a single dimension: time. In this paper, we discuss a purely temporal pattern code, functionally decoupled from spatial signals, for conscious state generation in the brain....
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| description | Consciousness is known to be limited in processing capacity and often described in terms of a unique processing stream across a single dimension: time. In this paper, we discuss a purely temporal pattern code, functionally decoupled from spatial signals, for conscious state generation in the brain. Arguments in favour of such a code include Dehaene et al.'s long-distance reverberation postulate, Ramachandran's remapping hypothesis, evidence for a temporal coherence index and coincidence detectors, and Grossberg's Adaptive Resonance Theory. A time-bin resonance model is developed, where temporal signatures of conscious states are generated on the basis of signal reverberation across large distances in highly plastic neural circuits. The temporal signatures are delivered by neural activity patterns which, beyond a certain statistical threshold, activate, maintain, and terminate a conscious brain state like a bar code would activate, maintain, or inactivate the electronic locks of a safe. Such temporal resonance would reflect a higher level of neural processing, independent from sensorial or perceptual brain mechanisms. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c9800b1d6e684ddc8a0a0b1a1c6b34722025-08-20T02:19:57ZengWileyNeural Plasticity2090-59041687-54432009-01-01200910.1155/2009/482696482696A Plastic Temporal Brain Code for Conscious State GenerationBirgitta Dresp-Langley0Jean Durup1Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS - UMR 5508), Université Montpellier 2, CC048 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France16 rue Romain Rolland, 34200 Sète, FranceConsciousness is known to be limited in processing capacity and often described in terms of a unique processing stream across a single dimension: time. In this paper, we discuss a purely temporal pattern code, functionally decoupled from spatial signals, for conscious state generation in the brain. Arguments in favour of such a code include Dehaene et al.'s long-distance reverberation postulate, Ramachandran's remapping hypothesis, evidence for a temporal coherence index and coincidence detectors, and Grossberg's Adaptive Resonance Theory. A time-bin resonance model is developed, where temporal signatures of conscious states are generated on the basis of signal reverberation across large distances in highly plastic neural circuits. The temporal signatures are delivered by neural activity patterns which, beyond a certain statistical threshold, activate, maintain, and terminate a conscious brain state like a bar code would activate, maintain, or inactivate the electronic locks of a safe. Such temporal resonance would reflect a higher level of neural processing, independent from sensorial or perceptual brain mechanisms.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/482696 |
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| title | A Plastic Temporal Brain Code for Conscious State Generation |
| title_full | A Plastic Temporal Brain Code for Conscious State Generation |
| title_fullStr | A Plastic Temporal Brain Code for Conscious State Generation |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Plastic Temporal Brain Code for Conscious State Generation |
| title_short | A Plastic Temporal Brain Code for Conscious State Generation |
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| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/482696 |
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