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    Where Am I? Redux
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 20 (1-2). 2013.
    Activation of the brainʼs putative retinoid system has been proposed as the neuronal substrate for our basic sense of being centered within a volumetric surround –- our minimal phenomenal consciousness (Trehub 2007). Here, the assumed properties of the self-locus within the retinoid model are shown to explain recent experimental findings relating to the out-of-body-experience. In addition, selective excursion of the heuristic self-locus is able to explain many important functions of consciousnes…Read more
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    The Cognitive Brain
    MIT Press. 1991.
    This monograph explains in terms of specified neuronal brain mechanisms and systems, how the human brain does its cognitive work. It elucidates functions such as declarative and episodic learning, imagery, spatial representation, object recognition, semantic processing, narrative comprehension, planning, and motivation. Neurophysiological, psychological, and clinical findings are presented in support of the theoretical model, and a variety of computer simulation tests demonstrate its competence.
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    Looking for nodes and edges
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (4): 650-651. 1982.
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    What does calibration solve?
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (2): 279-280. 1994.
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    Evolution's Gift: Subjectivity and the Phenomenal World
    Journal of Cosmology Vol 14. 4839-4847 14 4839-4847. 2011.
    A particular system of brain mechanisms, called the retinoid system, is proposed as the evolutionary adaptation responsible for the existence of subjectivity and our sense of being here in a surrounding 3D world. The structural and dynamic properties of the retinoid system successfully predict a novel conscious experience in which the brain constructs a vivid visual representation of an object moving in space without a corresponding image projected to the retinas. Implications of the retinoid sy…Read more
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    Space, self, and the theater of consciousness
    Consciousness and Cognition 16 (2): 310-330. 2007.
    Over a decade ago, I introduced a large-scale theory of the cognitive brain which explained for the first time how the human brain is able to create internal models of its intimate world and invent models of a wider universe. An essential part of the theoretical model is an organization of neuronal mechanisms which I have named the Retinoid Model (Trehub, 1977, 1991). This hypothesized brain system has structural and dynamic properties enabling it to register and appropriately integrate dispa…Read more
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