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The 'conscious pilot'—dendritic synchrony moves through the brain to mediate consciousness
- Source :
- Journal of Biological Physics
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2009.
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Abstract
- Cognitive brain functions including sensory processing and control of behavior are understood as "neurocomputation" in axonal-dendritic synaptic networks of "integrate-and-fire" neurons. Cognitive neurocomputation with consciousness is accompanied by 30- to 90-Hz gamma synchrony electroencephalography (EEG), and non-conscious neurocomputation is not. Gamma synchrony EEG derives largely from neuronal groups linked by dendritic-dendritic gap junctions, forming transient syncytia ("dendritic webs") in input/integration layers oriented sideways to axonal-dendritic neurocomputational flow. As gap junctions open and close, a gamma-synchronized dendritic web can rapidly change topology and move through the brain as a spatiotemporal envelope performing collective integration and volitional choices correlating with consciousness. The "conscious pilot" is a metaphorical description for a mobile gamma-synchronized dendritic web as vehicle for a conscious agent/pilot which experiences and assumes control of otherwise non-conscious auto-pilot neurocomputation.
- Subjects :
- Volition
Consciousness
Spikes
Sensory processing
medicine.medical_treatment
media_common.quotation_subject
Integration
Biophysics
Integrate and fire
Connexin
Electroencephalography
Cognition
Neurological models
Computer worm
medicine
EEG
Molecular Biology
Gap junctions
media_common
Neural correlate of consciousness
Volition (psychology)
Original Paper
NCC
Neural correlates of consciousness
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Brain
Dendrites
Cell Biology
Neuron
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
medicine.anatomical_structure
Action potentials
Artificial intelligence
Gamma synchrony
Psychology
business
Neuroscience
Neural networks
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- ISSN :
- 15730689 and 00920606
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Biological Physics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....419e3c04e4a18cad190ce0950ccad46b