Reorganization of the Connectivity between Elementary Functions: A Model Relating Conscious States to Neural Connections
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Reorganization of the Connectivity between Elementary Functions : A Model Relating Conscious States to Neural Connections. / Mogensen, Jesper; Overgaard, Morten.
In: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 8, 625, 20.04.2017, p. 1-21.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Reorganization of the Connectivity between Elementary Functions
T2 - A Model Relating Conscious States to Neural Connections
AU - Mogensen, Jesper
AU - Overgaard, Morten
PY - 2017/4/20
Y1 - 2017/4/20
N2 - In the present paper it is argued that the “neural correlate of consciousness” (NCC) does not appear to be a separate “module” – but an aspect of information processing within the neural substrate of various cognitive processes. Consequently, NCC can only be addressed adequately within frameworks that model the general relationship between neural processes and mental states – and take into account the dynamic connectivity of the brain. We presently offer the REFGEN (general reorganization of elementary functions) model as such a framework. This model builds upon and expands the REF (reorganization of elementary functions) and REFCON (of elementary functions and consciousness) models. All three models integrate the relationship between the neural and mental layers of description via the construction of an intermediate level dealing with computational states. The importance of experience based organization of neural and cognitive processes is stressed. The models assume that the mechanisms of consciousness are in principle the same as the basic mechanisms of all aspects of cognition – when information is processed to a sufficiently “high level” it becomes available to conscious experience. The NCC is within the REFGEN model seen as aspects of the dynamic and experience driven reorganizations of the synaptic connectivity between the neurocognitive “building blocks” of the model – the elementary functions.
AB - In the present paper it is argued that the “neural correlate of consciousness” (NCC) does not appear to be a separate “module” – but an aspect of information processing within the neural substrate of various cognitive processes. Consequently, NCC can only be addressed adequately within frameworks that model the general relationship between neural processes and mental states – and take into account the dynamic connectivity of the brain. We presently offer the REFGEN (general reorganization of elementary functions) model as such a framework. This model builds upon and expands the REF (reorganization of elementary functions) and REFCON (of elementary functions and consciousness) models. All three models integrate the relationship between the neural and mental layers of description via the construction of an intermediate level dealing with computational states. The importance of experience based organization of neural and cognitive processes is stressed. The models assume that the mechanisms of consciousness are in principle the same as the basic mechanisms of all aspects of cognition – when information is processed to a sufficiently “high level” it becomes available to conscious experience. The NCC is within the REFGEN model seen as aspects of the dynamic and experience driven reorganizations of the synaptic connectivity between the neurocognitive “building blocks” of the model – the elementary functions.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Hjerne
KW - Bevidsthed
KW - Hjerneskade
KW - Model
KW - Neurokognitiv orgnisering
KW - REF model
KW - REFCON-modellen
KW - REFGEN-modellen
KW - Plasticitet
KW - synapse
KW - neural computation
KW - neural organisation
KW - Hjerne
KW - Bevidsthed
KW - neural organisation
KW - REF-modellen
KW - REFCON-modellen
KW - REFGEN-modellen
KW - Plasticitet
KW - Hjerneskade
KW - Rehabilitering
KW - Neurorehabilitering
KW - Neurokognitiv organisering
KW - neural correlate of consciousness (NCC)
KW - consciousness
KW - neural connections
KW - cognition
KW - mental states
KW - neural states
KW - computational states
KW - integrative models
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00625
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00625
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 28473797
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
SN - 1664-1078
M1 - 625
ER -
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