Consciousness: converging insights from connectionist modeling and neuroscience.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences August 1, 2005 Tiago V Maia, Axel Cleeremans
Over the past decade, many findings in cognitive neuroscience have resulted in the view that selective attention, working memory and cognitive control involve competition between widely distributed representations. This competition is biased by top-down projections (notably from prefrontal cortex), which can selectively enhance some representations over others. This view has now been...