scholarly journals The neural correlates of consciousness: an analysis of cognitive skill learning

1998 ◽  
Vol 353 (1377) ◽  
pp. 1889-1901 ◽  
Author(s):  
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M. E. Raichle
Keyword(s):  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Neural Circuitry ◽  
Cognitive Skill ◽  
Functional Brain Imaging ◽  
Skill Learning ◽  
Neural Correlates Of Consciousness ◽  
Baseline Activity ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Imaging Strategy ◽  
The Brain

This paper presents a functional brain–imaging strategy designed to isolate neural correlates of consciousness in humans. This strategy is based on skill learning. In the example presented (rapidly generating verbs for visually presented nouns), a cognitive skill is examined before and after practice. As shown, there are marked qualitative differences in the neural circuitry supporting performance of this task in the naive and practised state that include, importantly, both increases and decreases from the baseline activity of the brain.

scholarly journals Ask and You Shall Receive: A closer look on unsolved consciousness issue

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Motavalli ◽  
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Javad Mahmoudi ◽  
Alireza Majdi ◽  
Saeed Sadigh-Eteghad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Brain Function ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Neural Correlates Of Consciousness ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Brain

Although there are numerous views about the concept of consciousness, no consensus exists regarding the meaning. However, with the aid of the latest neuroscientific developments, the misleading obstacles related to consciousness have been removed. Over the last few decades, neuroscientific efforts in determining the function of the brain and merging these findings with philosophical theories, have brought a more comprehensive perception of the notion of consciousness. In addition to metaphysical/ontological views of consciousness e.g., higher-order theories, reflexive theories, and representationalist theories, there are some brain directed topics in this matter which include but not are limited to neural correlates of consciousness (NCC), brain loop connectivity, and lateralization. This narrative review sheds light on cultural and historical aspects of consciousness in old and middle ages and introduces some of the prominent philosophical discussions related to mind and body. Also, it illustrates the correlation of brain function with states of consciousness with a focus on the roles of function and connectivity.

Global-workspace theory

2019 ◽  
pp. 96-115
Author(s):  
Peter Carruthers
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Neural Correlates Of Consciousness ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Global Workspace ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Global Workspace Theory

The present chapter outlines and defends the empirical case supporting global-workspace theory as the best account of the functional/neural correlates of consciousness, at least. The chapter explains the theoretical background to global-workspace theory and the evidence that supports it. It shows how the theory is well-supported by raft of findings in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, as well as by recent experiments tracking conscious contents in the brain. The chapter also replies to a variety of critiques and alleged forms of counter-evidence. It concludes by considering whether the fact that much of this evidence has been collected in work with nonhuman animals begs the consciousness-question that forms our topic (arguing that it does not).

scholarly journals The Neural Correlates of Consciousness and Attention: Two Sister Processes of the Brain

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Nani ◽  
Jordi Manuello ◽  
Lorenzo Mancuso ◽  
Donato Liloia ◽  
Tommaso Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Neural Correlates Of Consciousness ◽  
The Brain

scholarly journals Developing Intuition: Neural Correlates of Cognitive-Skill Learning in Caudate Nucleus

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (48) ◽  
pp. 17492-17501 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Wan ◽  
D. Takano ◽  
T. Asamizuya ◽  
C. Suzuki ◽  
K. Ueno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Caudate Nucleus ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Cognitive Skill ◽  
Skill Learning ◽  
Cognitive Skill Learning

scholarly journals Multistability and metastability: understanding dynamic coordination in the brain

2012 ◽  
Vol 367 (1591) ◽  
pp. 906-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Scott Kelso
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Neural Circuits ◽  
Neural Circuitry ◽  
Skill Learning ◽  
Coordination Dynamics ◽  
Dynamic Coordination ◽  
Action And Perception ◽  
Intentional Change ◽  
Complex Goal ◽  
The Brain

Multistable coordination dynamics exists at many levels, from multifunctional neural circuits in vertebrates and invertebrates to large-scale neural circuitry in humans. Moreover, multistability spans (at least) the domains of action and perception, and has been found to place constraints upon, even dictating the nature of, intentional change and the skill-learning process. This paper reviews some of the key evidence for multistability in the aforementioned areas, and illustrates how it has been measured, modelled and theoretically understood. It then suggests how multistability—when combined with essential aspects of coordination dynamics such as instability, transitions and (especially) metastability—provides a platform for understanding coupling and the creative dynamics of complex goal-directed systems, including the brain and the brain–behaviour relation.

scholarly journals Neural correlates of consciousness are not pictorial representations

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 999-1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraint Rees ◽  
Chris Frith
Keyword(s):  
Neural Activity ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Neural Correlates Of Consciousness ◽  
Visual Consciousness ◽  
One To One ◽  
Pictorial Representations ◽  
The Brain

O'Regan & Noë (O&N) are pessimistic about the prospects for discovering the neural correlates of consciousness. They argue that there can be no one-to-one correspondence between awareness and patterns of neural activity in the brain, so a project attempting to identify the neural correlates of consciousness is doomed to failure. We believe that this degree of pessimism may be overstated; recent empirical data show some convergence in describing consistent patterns of neural activity associated with visual consciousness.

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