Information integration based predictions about the conscious states of a spiking neural network

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 294-310

  Gamez, David ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Information integration; Machine consciousness; Neurophenomenology; Prediction; Robot; Spiking neural network; Synthetic phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PREDICTION; ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; ROBOTICS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77649231837     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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