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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Maia, Tiago V.
• Cleeremans, Axel

Titel

Consciousness: converging insights from connectionist modeling and neuroscience

Ist Teil von

• Trends in cognitive sciences, 2005-08, Vol.9 (8), p.397-404

Ort / Verlag

London: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Over the past decade, many findings in cognitive neuroscience have resulted in the view that selective attention, working memory and cognitive control involve competition between widely distributed representations. This competition is biased by top-down projections (notably from prefrontal cortex), which can selectively enhance some representations over others. This view has now been implemented in several connectionist models. In this review, we emphasize the relevance of these models to understanding consciousness. Interestingly, the models we review have striking similarities to others directly aimed at implementing ‘global workspace theory’. All of these models embody a fundamental principle that has been used in many connectionist models over the past twenty years: global constraint satisfaction.