The Default Space Theory (DST) of consciousness holds that conscious experience arises from synchronized physiological and neural oscillations that construct an internal three-dimensional "default space" approximating the body's position in the external world.Here we propose the Thalamic Oscillatory Integration Theory (TOIT), a conjectural extension of DST to spatial orientation and postural...
In 2018 my colleague and I asked five questions that neuroscience had not answered -how subjective experience relates to the physical world, how perception is so fast, how distributed processing yields one experience, why we sleep, and how emotions are regulated -and argued that the Default Space Model supplied insight into each.Eight years on, two of those answers require correction, one has...
Understanding the neural basis of conscious perception is one of science's great unanswered questions.The Default Space Theory (DST) of mind proposes that consciousness results from an internally generated three-dimensional "default space" that the brain projects, rather than a direct mirroring of the external world [1].In this model, the brain creates a virtual reality of experience composed...
Combining electrophysiological, imaging and computational results, we propose that the thalamus represents a dynamic nexus from which and to which oscillatory brain rhythms emerge and are tuned for conscious experience.Thus, we present the Gamma-Alpha Cogwheel.Fast gamma (, ~30-90 Hz) rhythms form the foundational structure of sensory experience, while slower alpha (, ~8-12 Hz) oscillations...