Towards global principles of brain processing

  • Authors:
  • John G. Taylor

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Kings College, Strand, London UK

  • Venue:
  • Computational models for neuroscience
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A set of principles are developed to explain how general information processing is carried out in the brain. These involve sub-cortical sites to help create specific control structures to achieve active responses to inputs and to develop memory systems for more effective responses to the environment. Consciousness and thinking are regarded as top-level processes created by suitable attentionally driven brain structures which are identified mainly in posterior and anterior sites respectively. In particular a specific neural model, the CODAM model, is developed to explain consciousness. Experimental evidence for the principles and their neural adumbrations are briefly surveyed.