N J Woolf

A possible role for cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain and pontomesencephalon in consciousness.

Consciousness and Cognition December 1, 1997 N J Woolf

Excitation at widely dispersed loci in the cerebral cortex may represent a neural correlate of consciousness. Accordingly, each unique combination of excited neurons would determine the content of a conscious moment. This conceptualization would be strengthened if we could identify what orchestrates the various combinations of excited neurons. In the present paper, cholinergic afferents to the...