Neurodynamics of cognition and consciousness

Abstract

Human cognition performs a granulation of the seemingly homogeneous temporal sequences of perceptual experiences into meaningful and comprehendible chunks of fuzzy concepts and complex behavioral schemas, which are accessed during future action selection and decisions. In this work a dynamical Theory-of-Mind (ToM) is presented to interpret experimental findings. In our approach meaningful knowledge is continuously created, processed, and dissipated in the form of sequences of oscillatory patterns of neural activity described through spatio-temporal phase transitions. The proposed approach has been implemented in computational and robotic environments.