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Mogensen J, Overgaard M. Reorganization of the Connectivity between Elementary Functions - A Model Relating Conscious States to Neural Connections. Front Psychol. 2017;8:625doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00625.
Mogensen, J., & Overgaard, M. (2017). Reorganization of the Connectivity between Elementary Functions - A Model Relating Conscious States to Neural Connections. Frontiers in psychology, 8625. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00625
Mogensen, Jesper, and Overgaard, Morten. "Reorganization of the Connectivity between Elementary Functions - A Model Relating Conscious States to Neural Connections." Frontiers in psychology vol. 8 (2017): 625. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00625
Mogensen J, Overgaard M. Reorganization of the Connectivity between Elementary Functions - A Model Relating Conscious States to Neural Connections. Front Psychol. 2017 Apr 20;8:625. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00625. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28473797; PMCID: PMC5397468.
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Front Psychol. 2017 Apr 20;8:625. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00625. eCollection 2017.

Reorganization of the Connectivity between Elementary Functions - A Model Relating Conscious States to Neural Connections.

Frontiers in psychology

Jesper Mogensen, Morten Overgaard

Affiliations

  1. The Unit for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmark.
  2. Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit, Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, MindLab, Aarhus UniversityAarhus, Denmark.

PMID: 28473797 PMCID: PMC5397468 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00625

Abstract

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.

Keywords: cognition; computational states; consciousness; integrative models; mental states; neural connections; neural correlate of consciousness (NCC); neural states

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