title: Neuronal mechanisms of consciousness: A Relational Global Workspace framework.
creator: Baars, Bernard
creator: Newman, James
creator: Taylor, John
subject: Cognitive Psychology
description:     This paper explores a remarkable convergence of ideas and evidence, previously presented in  separate places by its authors. That convergence has now become so persuasive that we believe we  are working within substantially the same broad framework. Taylor’s mathematical papers on  neuronal systems involved in consciousness dovetail well with work by Newman and Baars on the  thalamocortical system, suggesting a brain mechanism much like the global workspace architecture  developed by Baars (see references below). This architecture is relational, in the sense that it  continuously mediates the interaction of input with memory. While our approaches overlap in a  number of ways, each of us tends to focus on different areas of detail. What is most striking, and  we believe significant, is the extent of consensus, which we believe to be consistent with other  contemporary approaches by Weiskrantz, Gray, Crick and Koch, Edelman, Gazzaniga, Newell and  colleagues, Posner, Baddeley, and a number of others. We suggest that cognitive neuroscience is  moving toward a shared understanding of consciousness in the brain.
publisher: MIT Press
contributor: Hameroff, Stuart
contributor: Kaszniak, Al
contributor: Laukes, James
date: 1998
type: Book Chapter
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/946/1/Baars%2C_Newman_and_Taylor_Tucson_9x_html.htm
identifier:   Baars, Bernard and Newman, James and Taylor, John  (1998) Neuronal mechanisms of consciousness: A Relational Global Workspace framework.  [Book Chapter]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/946/