SEPTOHIPPOCAMPAL COMPARATOR - CONSCIOUSNESS GENERATOR OR ATTENTION FEEDBACK LOOP

Authors
Citation
M. Kinsbourne, SEPTOHIPPOCAMPAL COMPARATOR - CONSCIOUSNESS GENERATOR OR ATTENTION FEEDBACK LOOP, Behavioral and brain sciences, 18(4), 1995, pp. 687-688
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,"Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
18
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
687 - 688
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1995)18:4<687:SC-CGO>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
As Gray insists, his comparator model proposes a brute correlation onl y - of consciousness with septohippocampal output. I suggest that the comparator straddles a feedback loop that boosts the activation of nov el representations, thus helping them feature in present or recollecte d experience. Such a role in organizing conscious contents would trans cend correlation and help explain how consciousness emerges from brain function.