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The Link Between Brain Learning, Attention, And Consciousness (1998)
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@MISC{Grossberg98thelink,
author = {Stephen Grossberg},
title = {The Link Between Brain Learning, Attention, And Consciousness},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
The processes whereby our brains continue to learn about a changing world in a stable fashion throughout life are proposed to lead to conscious experiences. These processes include the learning of top-down expectations, the matching of these expectations against bottom-up data, the focusing of attention upon the expected clusters of information, and the development of resonant states between bottom-up and top-down processes as they reach an attentive consensus between what is expected and what is there in the outside world. It is suggested that all conscious states in the brain are resonant states, and that these resonant states trigger learning of sensory and cognitive representations. The models which summarize these concepts are therefore called Adaptive Resonance Theory, or ART, models. Psychophysical and neurobiological data in support of ART are presented from early vision, visual object recognition, auditory streaming, variable-rate speech perception, somatosensory perception, a...
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resonant state link brain learning auditory streaming changing world outside world expected cluster early vision variable-rate speech perception bottom-up data neurobiological data top-down process cognitive representation visual object recognition conscious experience somatosensory perception adaptive resonance theory top-down expectation attentive consensus conscious state stable fashion
