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Preface
Tokyo ’99 Declaration
Brain and quantum holography: Recent ruminations
Karl H. Pribram,
Radford University, USA
The mind-body and the light-matter
Mari Jibu,
Notre Dame Seshin University, Okayama, Japan
Dissipative quantum brain dynamics
Giuseppe Vitiello,
Universita’ di Salerno, Italia
What do neural nets and quantum theory tell us about mind and reality?
Paul J. Werbos,
National Science Foundation, Arlington, USA
Mathematics and the mind
Edward Nelson,
Princeton University, USA
Upwards and downwards causation in the brain: Case studies on the emergence and efficacy of consciousness
Francisco J. Varela,
LENA — CNRS UPR 640, Hôpital de la Salpètrîere, Paris, France
The importance of experience: Where for the future?
Brian D. Josephson,
University of Cambridge, UK
Cascade hypothesis of brain functions and consciousness
Gyo Takeda,
University of Tokyo and Tohoku University, Tokyo and Sendai, Japan
Neural correlates of visual working memory for motion
Naoyuki Osaka,
Kyoto University, Japan
Ontological implications of quantum brain dynamics
Gordon G. Globus,
University of California, Irvine, USA
On focus and fringe in explicit mental processing
Maxim I. Stamenov,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Will: A vague idea or a testable event?
Cloe Taddei-Ferretti,
Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR, Arco Felice, Italy
Binding and dysbinding: Ideas concerning the binding problem and a theory on motion sickness
Arne M.D. Tribukait,
Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Intrinsic contextuality as the crux of consciousness
Diederik Aerts,
Brussels Free University, Belgium
Perspective changes affect attentional access to conscious experience
Ruediger Oehlmann,
University of Essex, Colchester, England
Constructing pain: How pain hurts
Yoshio Nakamura,
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
Neuronoid as the coincidence detector: A new model of neuron with ‘ongoingness’ property
Hiroaki Inayoshi,
ETL (Electrotechnical Laboratory), Tsukuba, Japan
Accumulation of rapid and small synaptic increase as a basis for implicit memory
Osamu Hoshino,
Oita University, Japan
To understand the neural basis of implicit memory, a cortical neural network was modeled and simulated. As a cognitive process that relies on implicit memory, we employed “priming”, in which the identification of a stimulus is facilitated as a consequence of prior exposure to it. The network was trained to learn a visual scene that contains multiple objects each of which is composed of features with different sensory modalities. After the training, limit-cycle attractors corresponding to the learned objects are formed in the dynamic system of the network. Each limit-cycle attractor contains point attractors corresponding to the features of an individual object. In the priming test, the network is first stimulated (primed) with a cue feature that belongs to one of the objects. After the stimulation, we let the network identify one of its associate feature stimuli that belong to the same object. The identification of the associate stimulus is greatly enhanced if the cue stimulus is presented before the identification process, thus the network is primed. We demonstrate that the neural basis of implicit memory arises from the stabilization of relevant attractors, which is established by the rapid and small increase in the strength of synaptic connections during priming period. Repetitive trials of priming are stored as experience, in which synaptic accumulation is essential for the storage of the experience.
What is the self of a robot? On a consciousness architecture for a mobile robot as a model of human consciousness
Tadashi Kitamura,
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan
Apparent “free will” caused by representation of module control
Natsuki Oka,
Matsushita Research Institute Tokyo, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
S2 axiomatic system: A new geometrical system to maintain the qualia of words
Koichiro Hajiri,
SONY Computer Science Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
Reactivity of human cortical oscillations reflecting conscious perception in binocular rivalry
Tetsuo Kobayashi,
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Experimentally induced verbal slips in Japanese: Evidence from a phonological bias technique
Akie Saito,
Kyoto University, Japan
A basic neural mechanism for acoustic imaging
Satoru Inoue,
University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
A role of attention in formation of brain map for accomplishing spatial tasks
Yoshiki Kashimori,
University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Consciousness and the intercortical correlation function of electroencephalograms
Kimiaki Konno,
Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
The unconscious information processing appeared on the visual ERPs during pattern matching task of masked target
Tsuyoshi Hirata,
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
A computational model of personality
Tohru Nitta,
ETL (Electrotechnical Laboratory), Tsukuba, Japan
A hypothesis concerning a relationship between pleasantness and unpleasantness
Yasuhiro Sagawa,
Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, Kobe and Tokyo, Japan
Automaticity of visual attention: Effect of practice with rapid serial visual presentation
Kazuki Nishiura,
Hiroshima University, Japan
Working memory and the peak alpha frequency shift on magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Mariko Osaka,
Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Modularity and hierarchy: A theory of consciousness based on the fractal neural network
Takeshi Ieshima,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Category theory and consciousness
Goro Kato,
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA
Psychological information processing in a complex Hilbert space: Fourier transformation by reciprocal matrix on ratio scale
Eiichi Okamoto,
Kawamura-Gakuen Woman’s University, Chiba, Japan
Tokyo ’99 Memorial Pictures
Ryouichi Kasahara,
Official Photographer, Tokyo ’99
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Subject index
In: Yasue, Kunio, Mari Jibu and Tarcisio Della Senta (eds.), No Matter, Never Mind: Proceedings of Toward a Science of Consciousness: Fundamental approaches, Tokyo 1999. 2002. xvi, 391 pp. |
