TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints946
UR  - http://cogprints.org/946/
A1  - Baars, Bernard
A1  - Newman, James
A1  - Taylor, John
Y1  - 1998///
N2  -     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.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - consciousness
KW  -  cognitive neuroscience
KW  -  cognitive theory
KW  -  neuroscience theory
KW  -  awareness
KW  -  attention
KW  -  brain theory
TI  - Neuronal mechanisms of consciousness: A Relational Global Workspace framework.
SP  - 269
AV  - public
EP  - 278
ER  -

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