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Many types of neurons in the nervous system are endowed with particular types of intrinsic electrical activity. |
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Simultaneity of neuronal
activity is the most pervasive mode of operation of the
brain. Neuronal groups that oscillate in phase, i.e. coherently, support simultaneity of
activity. |
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Simultaneity
of neuronal activity arising from intrinsic oscillatory electrical
activity, resonance, and coherence are at the root of cognition. |
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Brain operates
as a reality emulator. |
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Nervous systems are an exclusive property of actively moving
creatures. |
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Brains are an evolutionary prerequisite for guided movement in primitive animals. |
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Nervous system
evolved to provide a plan,
one composed of goal-oriented, mostly short-lived prediction verified by moment-to-moment sensory
input. |
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Prediction is
the ultimate function of the brain. |
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Ability to predict evolved in tandem with increasingly complex
movement strategies. |
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Scherzo of Schubert's Piano Quartet No.8 requires repetitive hand movements at
approximately 8 Hz, which
approaches the upper limit for finger movements by professional pianists. |
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Intrinsic neuronal oscillation together with sensory input is necessary for the modulation of ongoing movement. |
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The spinal
cord is capable of sustaining a rhythmic movement -- like a decapitated chicken -- but it cannot organize and generate a directed movement. |
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Inferior Olive (IO) neurons play a fundamental role in movement coordination. |
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Inferior olive IO neurons axons form nerve fiber bundles that route into the cerebellum. |
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Purkinje cells
are the largest nerve cells
in the brain. |
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Climbing fibers of IO axons climb up over the Purkinje cells'
branching dendrites where the Purkinje cells receive input from other neurons. |
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Most movement
control processing occurs in the cerebellum. |
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Climbing fibers, which are some of the most powerful
synaptic inputs in the vertebrate central nervous
system, play an important role in motor control. |
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Purkinje cells are inhibitory onto their target
neurons. |
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Axons of the IO (inferior olive] cells give rise to the cerebellar climbing fibers. |
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Transmembrane voltage in IO (inferior olive) cells oscillates spontaneously at 8-12 Hz.
IO cells fire action
potentials (spikes) at a frequency of 1-2 Hz, i.e., they do not fire on every
oscillation.
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IO cells (inferior olive) fire their action potentials rhythmically. Membrane conductance (ionic flow)
underlies the generation of this oscillatory activity, which is referred
to as regenerative firing.
IO cells are capable of generating action potentials without excitatory
input. |
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Cerebellum is
the neuronal area where most of the control of
movement coordination is processed. |
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Oscillation of
the inferior olive results in a slight tremor at close to 10 Hz, even when we are not moving. |
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The slight
oscillatory movement (known as physiological
tremor) serves to time movements, like a metronome does when we are learning to
play a musical instrument. |
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No one can move faster than they can tremble. |
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There is strong scientific
evidence to indicate the relationship of the inferior olive to tremor. The
pulsate organization of movement may well be related to rhythmic, ensemble output of the inferior olive. |
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The brain's
control of organized
movement gave birth to the generation and nature of the mind. [Fuster's perception-action cycle] |
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Most motor
processing is handled by the cerebellum and its associated incoming
and outgoing systems. |
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Olivocerebellar system is the prime candidate
for a neural assembly capable of optimizing and
simplifying motor control. |
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Premotor template that serves as a planning platform for behavior
or purposeful action. [Fuster's
perception-action cycle] |
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Regardless of training or
personal effort, we cannot make movements faster than 10 Hz. |
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Brain is a closed system modulated by the senses. |
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Self-activating system is capable of emulating reality, even in the absence of input from reality, as occurs in dream states and daydreaming. |
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Emotions are internally generated intrinsic events,
excellent examples of premotor templates in primitive form. |
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Play behavior
by young animals is an exploration of internal functional space. |
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Embryos
generate continuous bouts of muscle tremor, not unlike small epileptic fits. |
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Epileptic activity may be among the most primitive of all functional states -- a bit like
sneezing. |
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Transformations between sensory input and motor output is an internal functional space, which is made up of neurons that
represent the properties of the external world. [Fuster's
perception-action cycle] |
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Phosphorus is
critical to eukaryotic life.
For energetically expensive tasks, cells must obtain the highest levels of usable energy from fuel molecules, via oxidative phosphorylation. |
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With the development of
calmodulin, the calcium/calmodulin complex became an intracellular tool as
a signaling system via 'second messenger' roles. |
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Neurons arose
within the space between sensing and moving; this space evolved to become the brain. |
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Neurons are a specialization of eukaryotic cells that
allowed the evolution of natural 'computation' by cellular ensembles. |
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Neurons came
into existence to facilitate and orchestrate the ever-growing complexity of sensorimotor
transformations. |
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Electrochemical signaling, 1 to 5 milliseconds. |
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Gap junction channels, direct flow of current from cell to cell, rapid and synchronous firing of interconnected cells. |
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Temporal coherence - timeness is consciousness - perceptual unity based on spacial and temporal
conjunction. |
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Consciousness
is a noncontinuous event
determined by simultaneity of activity in the thalamocortical system. |
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The 40-Hz
oscillation is a candidate mechanism to produce temporal conjunction of rhythmic activity over a large ensemble of neurons. |
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Thalamic input from the cortex is far larger
than from the peripheral sensory systems. This suggests that thalamocortical
iterative activity is a main mechanism of brain function. [Fuster's
perception-action cycle] |
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The thalamocortical
system, by its hublike
organization, allows radial
communication of the thalamic
nuclei with all aspects of the cortex. These cortical regions include
the sensory, motor, and associational areas. These areas
subserve a feedforward/feedback, reverberating flow of information. [Fuster's
perception-action cycle] |
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Prediction is
the ultimate and most pervasive of all brain functions. |
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"I" of the vortex |
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Secondary qualities of our
senses such as colors, identified smells, tastes, and sounds are but
inventions/constructs of an intrinsic CNS (central nervous system) semantic. |
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What distinction is there
between dreaming and wakefulness? If cognition is a function of the 40-Hz
thalamocortical resonance, what happens to this
oscillatory rhythm during sleep, particularly dream or REM sleep? |
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The 40-Hz
coherent activity was present in the awake and REM
sleep states, but greatly
reduced in delta (slow-wave,
deep sleep). |
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An auditory stimulus produced
40-Hz oscillations in the wakefulness state |
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The waking and REM sleep states
are very similar with
respect to the presence of 40-Hz oscillations. |
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40-Hz oscillations are not reset by sensory input during REM sleep, even though studies have clearly shown that the thalamocortical system is accessible to sensory input during
sleep. |
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Difference between dreaming and
wakefulness: the external
world is not perceived during REM sleep because the
intrinsic activity of the nervous system does not
place sensory input within the context of the functional state being generated by the brain. |
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Consciousness
is a product of thalamocortical activity. |
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Dialogue
between the thalamus and
the cortex generates subjectivity in humans and in higher
vertebrates. [Edelman's dynamic core] |
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Fixed Action Patterns (FAPs) - Automatic brain
modules that make complex movements; well defined motor patterns, (walking, swallowing) |
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Compare FAPs, which include the brain, with spinal reflexes in which the brain is not involved. |
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FAPs group simple reflexes and lower FAPs into functional modules capable of more complex goal-oriented behavior. |
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Central Pattern Generators
(CPGs) generate neuronal patterns of activity that drive FAPs such as the walking FAP. |
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It is believed that the more complex FAPs are
generated centrally by the basal ganglia. |
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The basal
ganglia represent some of
the least understood areas
of the brain, particularly in regard to their
functional organization and architecture. |
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Expression of FAPs is supported by the interplay
among a number of vastly different parts of the
nervous system and the basal
ganglia. |
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Majority of connections within the basal ganglia are inhibitory. |
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Basal ganglia's intrinsic, reciprocal inhibitory
activity keeps all potential FAPs from becoming active. |
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When a FAP is
executed, we say that it has been "liberated" into action. |
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Basal ganglia
are the doors that, when unlatched by the motor cortex, may release into action very large functions outside of the
basal ganglia. |
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FAPs are most
probably implemented at the
level of the basal ganglia
and put into context by the reentry of the basal ganglia output into the ever-cycling thalamocortical
system. |
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Language
itself is a FAP. |
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Broca's area is responsible for the generation of motor
aspects of language. |
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Language centers of the brain -
(diagram) |
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Nervous system
appears very much to be organized in functional
modules. |
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FAPS are
subject to modification;
they can be learned, remembered, and perfected. |
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Emotions as Fixed Action Patterns (FAPs) |
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Emotions are among the very oldest of our brain properties. |
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Motor FAPs of
relatively primitive animals are accompanied by a well-defined emotional
component. |
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Emotions are
linked to the motor
aspects of FAPs by access through the amygdala and the hypothalamus and their connectivity with
the brain stem. |
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A Parkinson patient cannot express the emotional
state because their
associated motor FAPs are no longer psychologically
accessible. |
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Macroscopic strategy of the
brain -- smells awful, so don't
eat it -- smells right, mate with it. |
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Cognition and consciousness probably evolved from the emotional states that trigger FAPs. |
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Combine FAPs,
emotions, consciousness into one directed output -- Thalamocortical system. |
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There is no perception that is ever separated from a possible, functional, motor implementation. |
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Thalamocortical system, especially the non-specific
intralaminar system, projects extremely aggressively
to the basal ganglia. |
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When a soloist
plays a concerto with a symphony orchestra, the
concerto is played purely from memory. This highly
specific motor pattern FAP
is stored somewhere in the brain during practice
sessions and is released
during the performance. |
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Although it seems intuitively
impossible that something as complicated and exacting in detail as the finger movements in playing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto would be a FAP, it is an automatic module of discrete motor function. |
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The playing of an instrumental concerto implies that a highly specific motor pattern is stored somewhere and subsequently released at the time of the performance. |
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From the musical
performance of an instrumental
concerto example, it is evidence that a FAP can be learned. In addition, a human FAP can be modified by experience. |
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Neural processes underlying creativity have nothing to do with rationality. Creativity is not born out of reasoning. |
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Activity in
the basal ganglia is running all the time, playing motor patterns and snippets of
motor patterns amongst and between themselves.
Because of the reentrant inhibitory connectivity among and between these nuclei, they seem to act as a continuous, random, motor pattern generator. |
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Mozart said his music came to
him, uninterrupted. |
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We are born
with a well-wired brain and an incredible amount of knowledge derived from the genetic wiring of our brains. |
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Some FAPs are critical for survival; begin breathing at birth. |
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Certain emotional states are prewired
and operative at birth. |
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Referential memory represents that which has accrued
during development and throughout
a single lifetime.
[Autobiographical memory] |
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Working memory -- (diagram) |
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Working memory is the ability to hold the detail of significant content
of the external world with the momentary internal
context generated by the thalamocortical
system. |
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Coactivate familiar, associated patterns of already embedded patterns of activity. |
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Pattern of ensemble firing in a given sensory
cortex eventually associates and resonates with neurons in the cortical area that
deal with related subjects. |
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Particular snippet
of a song is randomly released
from the basal ganglia; this fragment of a FAP then brings with it
the internal visual of when you heard this song last or perhaps where you
were and what you were doing when you first heard it. |
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Current event memory; no different from that used in remembering where you left the
book you recently purchased. This memory may vanish in a few days. |
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Memorable occasion; clearly referential; becomes transferred into long-term memory as "things we will never forget." |
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Implicit memory |
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Explicit memory |
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Patient HM had surgery to control epilepsy; both medial temporal lobes
removed in 1953; extensively studied aftermath. |
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Neuroimaging, PET (positron emission tomography), fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) |
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Brain regions
that seem to underlie implicit memory include the amygdala, whereas explicit memory involves the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. |
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Short-term or "working" memory is supported
by ongoing activity that re-enters a neuronal loop. (analogous to
continuously repeating a phone number while dialing), ongoing electrical
activity produced by synaptic feedback. |
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Donald O. Hebb |
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Long Term Potentiation (LTP) |
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Brain is prewired by nature and for the most part
genetically determined.
Hubel and Wiesel, vision; Mountcastle, somatosensory; Chomsky, language. |
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Double vision (diplopia) occurs
because the eyes are no longer perfectly aligned. |
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Acquisition of phonemes that characterize a certain language; learned within a particular period of
time; learn a particular language, but only at the
expense of the ability to learn other languages. |
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Limits of adaptability apply to
everything we do or learn. |
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Imprinting |
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Neural resonance |
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Primitive creatures such as ants and
cockroaches are biological
automatons. |
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Brain function implements what
natural selection has found to be the most beneficial in terms of species
survivability. |
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Sensory experience leading to active movement (motoricity) through the function of prediction is the ultimate reason for the very existence of the central
nervous system. [Fuster's perception-action cycle] |
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Epileptic patients, electrically stimulated cerebral cortex; limbs, finger, lips
twitch from electrical stimulation of motor homunculus; sensory experiences elicited by electrical stimulation of
somatosensory and association cortices. |
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Somatosensory cortex ("sensory homunculus"), motor
cortex ("motor homunculus"), Wilder Penfield maps. - (illustration) |
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Qualia are fundamentally related
to electrical activity in the brain. Qualia must be subserved by electrical
events at nerve cells. |
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A quantum of
cognition is measured to be a well-defined 12-15 millisecond time epoch. [This quantum of cognition has nothing to do
with quantum mechanics.] |
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The perceptual
capability of the central nervous system is such
that for two sensory stimuli to be perceived as two distinguishable
sensory events, there must be a minimum of 12.5 milliseconds separating these events. |
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A quantum of
cognition requires the patterned
activation of millions or even hundreds of millions of cells. |
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Electricity is
the only medium fast enough
and far-reaching enough to
support the rapid and widespread ensemble activity underlying sensory experience within perceptual time frames. |
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In the deep
sleep state, sensory input of all types (modalities) is for the most part rejected by the thalamocortical system. |
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There are particular types of electrical patterns, global and local,
that must be coactivated
for feelings to be evoked. |
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Some people believe that qualia
represent very profound events in neuronal function dealing with quantum mechanical structures of neurons
that include the detailed organization of microtubules
and microfilaments. Llinás
doubts that this topic is worth pursuing at any
serious level. |
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Patterned electrical activity in neurons and their molecular
counterparts are sensations. |
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Qualia or feelings - conscious
experience. |
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It is assumed that the brain attempts at all times to decrease the functional overhead of motor control. Further, it is assumed
that the brain also attempts to decrease the
functional overhead of sensory
systems. |
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We cannot
experience everything all at once, all the time, so qualia provide a construct based on what
the thalamocortical system deems worthy on a moment-to-moment basis of focus/attention/significance. |
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Weber-Fechner law governing the relationship between the
intensity of sensory
activation and perception: s = k * ln A/A0 |
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Generated from the internal
functional geometry within the basal ganglia is a translation into expression
through the functional geometry of how the body can and needs to move, given
the momentary (internal and/or external) context. |
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Functional organization of
sensory systems, translation of the geometry of the properties of the
external world into the geometry of the internal functional space, reality is
that all times simplified. |
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Think of qualia -- sensations or
sensory experience -- as the brain's innate drive toward reducing
overhead. Each element of sensory
input carries its own significance and the whole is assembled by the
pre-existent presence of significant activity and the absence of other
significant activity. |
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Qualia as a
sort of master organ, one
that allows for the individual senses to operate or comingle in an ensemble fashion. |
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Nervous system's capacity to
generate the premotor imagery required to abstract the properties of things
from the things themselves. |
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Abstract thinking must have preceded language during evolution. |
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Premotor events leading to expression of language are similar to the premotor events of any purposeful movement. [Fuster's perception-action cycle] |
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Language exists in many species
far older than Homo sapiens. |
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Prosody is an outward gesturing of an internal state; smiling, laughter,
frowning, lifting of one's eyebrows; convey internal
state in a way that is recognizable
to someone else. |
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Prosody
represents a subcategory within language. |
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Pheromone delivery and reception
systems of a moth are known to be effective for distances of several miles.
Pheromone released by the female is recognized specifically and exclusively
by the male of the same species; find each other in an otherwise crowded
niche. |
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FAP of vocalization. |
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Vocalization
became with usage a FAP. |
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Wernicke's area (language comprehension, or auditory association area). |
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Broca's speech area (alexia, inability to read, anomia, word-finding difficulties,
aphasias, speech disorders). |
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