Scientific Understanding of Consciousness
Consciousness as an Emergent Property of Thalamocortical Activity

 Consciousness-Models Diagrams

 

 

 

Brain Stem Nuclei Involved in Homeostasis

 (Damasio, Self Comes to Mind, 98)

Convergence-Divergence Zones Architecture

(Damasio, Self Comes to Mind, 142)

Edelman’s Primary (Core) Consciousness Model

Cowan Model of Attention

Edelman’s Dynamic Core Cartoon

Emotion Diagram of Edmund Rolls

(Rolls; Neural Networks and Brain Function, 138)

Friendly Conversation

Homunculus (Topographic) Diagram

Motor Movement Diagram

Music Processing Modular Model

(Nature Neuroscience, Peretz & Coltheart, “Modularity of Music Processing,” July 2003)

Neuron Pulse

Pain and Pleasure Systems

Pink Noise

(György Buzsáki; Rhythms of the Brain, 119)

Basal Ganglia -- Multiple Parallel Loops

(György Buzsáki -  Rhythms of the Brain, 366)

Cerebellum -- Multiple Parallel Loops

(György Buzsáki -  Rhythms of the Brain, 364)

Sleep Stages Diagram

(György Buzsáki -  Rhythms of the Brain, 188)

Hierarchical Organization Diagram

(Fuster, Prefrontal Cortex, 339)

Cortical Layers

(Purves; Neuroscience, 616)

Voluntary Movement Diagram

Brodmann Areas

Parallel Pathways through Basal Ganglia

Perception--Action Cycle

(Joaquín Fuster; The Prefrontal Cortex, 360)

Thalamocortical System Diagram

Thalamus Diagram

Autoassociation Diagram

(Rolls & Treves; Neural Networks and Brain Function, 42)

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Hippocampus Diagram

(Rolls, Neural Networks and Brain Function, 109)

Sensory Pathways Diagram

(Rolls, Memory, Attention, and Decision-Making, 123)