A computational model of a global neuronal workspace with stochastic connections

Neural Networks

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1139-1154

  Connor, Dustin ^a   Shanahan, Murray ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CORTICAL COMPETITION; GLOBAL NEURONAL WORKSPACE; GLOBAL WORKSPACE THEORY; REVERBERATING NETWORKS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

COMPETITION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCALE UP; SPIKE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS;

EID: 78149499877     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Baars B.J. A cognitive theory of consciousness 1988, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2. Baars B.J. The conscious access hypothesis: origins and recent evidence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2002, 6:47-52.
3. Bentley N.M., Salinas E. Bistability in oscillatory cortical modules. Neurocomputing 2004, 58-60:769-774.
4. Binzegger T., Douglas R.J., Martin K.A.C. A quantitative map of the circuit of cat primary visual cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience 2004, 24(39):8441-8453.
5. Caporale N., Dan Y. Spike timing-dependent plasticity: a hebbian learning rule. Annual Review of Neuroscience 2008, 31:25-46.
6. Dehaene S., Kerszberg M., Changeux J.P. A neuronal model of a global workspace in effortful cognitive tasks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 1998, 95:14529-14534.
7. Dehaene S., Naccache L. Towards a cognitive neuroscience of consciousness: basic evidence and a workspace framework. Cognition 2001, 79:1-37.
8. Dehaene S., Sergent C., Changeux J. A neuronal network model linking subjective reports and objective physiological data during conscious perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2003, 100:8520-8525.
9. Durstewitz D., Seamans J.K. Beyond bistability: biophysics and temporal dynamics of working memory. Neuroscience 2006, 139:119-133.
10. Gabbott P.L.A., Somogyi P. Quantitative distribution of GABA-immunoreactive neurons in the visual cortex, area 17, of the cat. Experimental Brain Research 1986, 61(2):323-331.
11. Izhikevich E.M. Simple model of spiking neurons. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 2003, 14:1569-1572.
12. Izhikevich E.M. Dynamical systems in neuroscience: the geometry of excitability and bursting 2007, MIT Press.
13. Izhikevich E.M., Edelman G.M. Large-scale model of mammalian thalamocortical systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2008, 105:3593-3598.
14. Izhikevich E.M., Gally J.A., Edelman G.M. Spike-timing dynamics of neuronal groups. Cerebral Cortex 2004, 14:933-944.
15. Kalitzin S., van Dijk B.W., Spekreijse H. Self-organized dynamics in plastic neural networks: bistability and coherence. Biological Cybernetics 2000, 83:139-150.
16. Lo C.-C., Wang X.-J. Cortico-basal ganglia circuit mechanism for a decision threshold in reaction time tasks. Nature Neuroscience 2006, 9(7):956-963.
17. Marzouki Y., Grainger J., et al. Exogenous spatial cueing modulates subliminal masked priming. Acta Psycholica (Amsterdam) 2007, 126(1):34-45.
18. Shanahan M. A spiking neuron model of cortical broadcast and competition, and supplementary note. Consciousness and Cognition 2008, 17(1):288-306.
19. Song S., Abbott L.F. Cortical development and remapping through spike timing-dependent plasticity. Neuron 2001, 32:339-350.
20. Van den Bussche E., Segers G., Reynvoet B. Conscious and unconscious proportion effects in masked priming. Consciousness and Cognition 2008, 17(4):1345-1358.
21. Wang X.-J. Synaptic reverberation underlying mnemonic persistent activity. Trends in Neurosciences 2001, 24(8):455-463.
22. Wang X.-J. Probabilistic decision making by slow reverberation in cortical circuits. Neuron 2002, 36:955-968.