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

Scatter of Topics for Spreading Activation functionality

Return to — Perceptual Categorization

Attention

Thalamocortical System

Sensory Input

Thalamus

Brain Stem

Sense of Self

Kinesthetic Perception

Somatosensory

Olfactory and Gustatory

Vision

Auditory System

Perception

Memory

Neurons and Synapses

Neural Network

Neurotransmitters

Amygdala

Limbic System

Emotions

Unconscious Processes

Working Memory

Associative nature of Memory

The spreading activation model has generally proved more successful than the hierarchical network model. (Baddeley, et.al.; Memory, 121)

Spreading Activation

Reentry and Recursion