Recent advances in human brain monitoring provide increasingly detailed insights into the spatio-temporal neurodynamic processes contributing to cognition and consciousness. The view that cognition is not a smooth temporal process, rather it is a sequence of metastable states which have a duration of around 100 ms, becomes increasingly recognized. The cinematic theory of cognition is a...
In this work, we provide a brief overview of Global Workspace Theory (GWT), along with recent developments and clarifications of modern neuroscientific evidence. GWT started in the 1980s as a purely psychological theory of conscious cognition, and has become a prominent approach in scientific studies of consciousness (Mashour et al., 2020). Based on today’s far more detailed understanding of...
Spatio-temporal brain activity monitored by EEG recordings in humans and other mammals has identified beta/gamma oscillations (20-80 Hz), which are self-organized into spatio-temporal structures recurring at theta/alpha rates (4-12 Hz). These structures have statistically significant correlations with sensory stimuli and reinforcement contingencies perceived by the subject. The repeated...