Daniel P Bliss

A dynamic bifurcation mechanism explains cortex-wide neural correlates of conscious access.

Cell Reports March 25, 2025 Ulysse Klatzmann, Sean Froudist-Walsh, Daniel P Bliss et al. 14 citations

Conscious access is suggested to involve "ignition," an all-or-none activation across cortical areas. To elucidate this phenomenon, we carry out computer simulations of a detection task using a mesoscale connectome-based model for the multiregional macaque cortex. The model uncovers a dynamic bifurcation mechanism that gives rise to ignition in a network of associative regions. A hierarchical...