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Septohippocampal comparator: Consciousness generator or attention feedback loop?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Marcel Kinsbourne
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155.

Abstract

As Gray insists, his comparator model proposes a brute correlation only – of consciousness with septohippocampal output. I suggest that the comparator straddles a feedback loop that boosts the activation of novel representations, thus helping them feature in present or recollected experience. Such a role in organizing conscious contents would transcend correlation and help explain how consciousness emerges from brain function.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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