A spiking neuron model of cortical broadcast and competition

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 288-303

  Shanahan, Murray ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Cortical competition; Global neuronal workspace; Global workspace theory; Reverberating networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEMORY; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SPIKE WAVE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 40749140805     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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