From unilateral neglect to the brain basis of consciousness.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior August 2006 Marcel Kinsbourne
According to the dominant focus model, the differential activation of the thalamocortical network is a sufficient condition for the diversity of states of consciousness to occur, and coherent patterns of interactive forebrain activation peaks are sufficient to generate specific conscious figures against ground. These minimal assumptions are consonant with the known properties of unilateral...