Place Cells and Human Consciousness.
How does conscious thought occur? In the scene 'The cat is next to the dog', the cat is within a proximal distance to the left or right of the dog. This probabilistic proximal left/right cognitive space is an example of a mental 'place field'. A place field -- also in humans presumably represented b...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Consciousness Studies Vol. 23; no. 3/4; pp. 146 - 166 |
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Imprint Academic
2016
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