The neuronal basis for consciousness
The neuronal basis for consciousness
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10.1098/rstb.1998.0336
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1998-11-29
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Pedroarena, C
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作者：
Llinás, R;Ribary, U;Pedroarena, C
试图了解大脑作为一个整体是如何组织的，似乎第一次成为一个严肃的探究话题。其神经元组织的一个方面似乎对整体功能特别重要，那就是丰富的丘脑皮质互连性，尤其是丘脑皮质神经元环路功能的交互性质。此外，特定和非特定丘脑环之间的相互作用表明，丘脑不是进入大脑的大门，而是代表一个枢纽，皮层中的任何位点都可以通过该枢纽与任何其他此类位点进行通信。本文的目的是探索一个基本假设，即特定和非特定丘脑活动的大规模、时间上的一致会产生表征人类认知的功能状态。
Attempting to understand how the brain, as a whole, might be organized seems, for the first time, to be a serious topic of inquiry. One aspect of its neuronal organization that seems particularly central to global function is the rich thalamocortical interconnectivity, and most particularly the reciprocal nature of the thalamocortical neuronal loop function. Moreover, the interaction between the specific and non-specific thalamic loops suggests that rather than a gate into the brain, the thalamus represents a hub from which any site in the cortex can communicate with any other such site or sites. The goal of this paper is to explore the basic assumption that large-scale, temporal coincidence of specific and non-specific thalamic activity generates the functional states that characterize human cognition.