Theories of consciousness

AK Seth, T Bayne - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Recent years have seen a blossoming of theories about the biological and physical basis of
consciousness. Good theories guide empirical research, allowing us to interpret data …

Temporo-spatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC)–Bridging the gap of neuronal activity and phenomenal states

G Northoff, F Zilio - Behavioural brain research, 2022 - Elsevier
Consciousness and its neural mechanisms remain a mystery. Current neuroscientific
theories focus predominantly on the external input/stimulus and the associated stimulus …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal consciousness

B Dainton - 2010 - plato.stanford.edu
In ordinary conscious experience, consciousness of time seems commonplace. For
example, we are often aware of changes, movements, and successions unfolding over brief …

Perception in real-time: predicting the present, reconstructing the past

H Hogendoorn - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
We feel that we perceive events in the environment as they unfold in real-time. However, this
intuitive view of perception is impossible to implement in the nervous system due to …

Can disorders of subjective time inform the differential diagnosis of psychiatric disorders? A transdiagnostic taxonomy of time

L Kent, B Nelson, G Northoff - Early intervention in psychiatry, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Time is a core aspect of psychopathology with potential for clinical use and early
intervention. Temporal experience, perception, judgement and processing are distorted in …

Beyond task response–pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness

G Northoff, F Zilio, J Zhang - Physics of life reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The current discussion on the neural correlates of the contents of consciousness (NCCc)
focuses mainly on the post-stimulus period of task-related activity. This neglects the …

Temporal irreversibility of neural dynamics as a signature of consciousness

LA de la Fuente, F Zamberlan, H Bocaccio… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Dissipative systems evolve in the preferred temporal direction indicated by the
thermodynamic arrow of time. The fundamental nature of this temporal asymmetry led us to …

Electromagnetism's bridge across the explanatory gap: How a neuroscience/physics collaboration delivers explanation into all theories of consciousness

CG Hales, M Ericson - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A productive, informative three decades of correlates of phenomenal consciousness (P-
Consciousness) have delivered valuable knowledge while simultaneously locating us in a …

Time-consciousness in computational phenomenology: a temporal analysis of active inference

JD Bogotá, Z Djebbara - Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Time plays a significant role in science and everyday life. Despite being experienced as a
continuous flow, computational models of consciousness are typically restricted to a …

What neuroscientists think, and don't think, about consciousness

PD Kitchener, CG Hales - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The approach the majority of neuroscientists take to the question of how consciousness is
generated, it is probably fair to say, is to ignore it. Although there are active research …