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222Space, self, and the theater of consciousnessConsciousness 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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40The Cognitive BrainMIT 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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35Two arguments for a pre-reflective core self: Commentary onConsciousness and Cognition 18 (1): 339-340. 2009.
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35Where Am I? ReduxJournal 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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32Two arguments for a pre-reflective core self: Commentary on PraetoriusConsciousness and Cognition 18 (1): 339-340. 2009.Neither personal belief nor a phenomenal self model can exist without attachment to a pre-reflective core self.
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6Evolution's Gift: Subjectivity and the Phenomenal WorldJournal 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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A foundation for the scientific study of consciousness (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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University of Massachusetts, AmherstRegular Faculty
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Cognitive Sciences |