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Consciousness emerging : the dynamics of perception, imagination, action, memory, thought, and language

By Bartsch , Renate

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Pub.
Year
2002
ISBN
9789027297877, 9027297878
ISSN
1381-589X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1767348 bytes)
Series
Advances in consciousness research 39.
Pages
256\268
Time added
2015-06-02 19:00:58
Consciousness Cognition Conscience SCIENCE Cogniti

Description

This study of the workings of neural networks in perception and understanding of situations and simple sentences shows that, and how, distributed conceptual constituents are bound together in episodes within an interactive/dynamic architecture of sensorial and pre-motor maps, and maps of conceptual indicators (semantic memory) and individuating indicators (historical, episodic memory). Activation circuits between these maps make sensorial and pre-motor fields in the brain function as episodic maps creating representations, which are expressions in consciousness. It is argued that all conscious.  Read more...

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