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Reticular-thalamic activation of the cortex generates conscious contents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

James Newman
Affiliation:
Colorado Neurological Institute, Denver, CO 80218. newmanjb@aol.com

Abstract

Gray hypothesizes that the contents of consciousness correspond to the outputs of a subicular (hippocampal/temporal lobe) comparator that compares the current state of the organism's perceptual world with a predicted state. I argue that Gray has identified a key contributing system to conscious awareness, but that his model is inadequate for explaining how conscious contents are generated in the brain. An alternative model is offered.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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