Consciousness and the Binding Problem

By Wolf Singer. 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Plant Science

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On the Binding Problem in Artificial Neural Networks (2020, background): “The term binding problem has also been used in the context of consciousness, as the problem of how a single unitary experience arises from the distributed sensory impressions and processing in the brain (Singer, 2001) 4.”
Merging of the Senses (2008, neutral): “This is known as the “binding problem” (Singer, 2001) and is important to all multisensory processing.”
Millisecond by Millisecond, Year by Year: Normative EEG Microstates and Developmental Stages (2002, background): “Furthermore many clinically relevant conditions including neurological problems and psychiatric disorders (Hughes and John, 1999), varying states of consciousness (John, 2001; Singer, 2001) sleep (Borbely and Achermann, 1999) or neurotropic medication (Herrmann, 1982; Saletu et al.”
Functional roles of rhythmic neuronal activity in the human visual and somatosensory system (2008, background): “An alternative suggestion is, that the brain might utilize a temporal code, grouping the neural representations of an object in different feature domains together by synchronizing their activity (Singer, 2001).”
BOLD correlates of EEG alpha phase-locking and the fMRI default mode network (2009, background): “Based on this hypothesis, common-phase synchronization of neuronal activity is currently the main candidate mechanism to account for the binding of different neural ensembles into transiently stable neural network (Singer, 2001).”
Meditation and the neuroscience of consciousness (2007, background): “It is in response to this type of issue that contemporary researchers (Llinas, 1998; Tononi, 1998; Singer, 2001) have hypothesized some kind of integrative mechanisms or processes that, while transient, are able to orchestrate or coordinate”
Electrophysiological correlates of the brain's intrinsic large-scale functional architecture (2008, result): “This result is consistent with the view that coherent patterns in gamma frequency activity are related to conscious experiences (15, 16) that are more prevalent in wakefulness and REM sleep than in SWS (17, 18).”
Neural mechanisms for interacting with a world full of action choices. (2010, background): “Presumably, all of these visual substreams must be bound together to form a unified representation of the world; but whether and how this binding occurs remain unresolved, despite vibrant research efforts (Engel et al. 2001, Shadlen & Movshon 1999, Singer 2001).”
Deep Hierarchies in the Primate Visual Cortex: What Can We Learn for Computer Vision? (2013, background): “same object and desynchronize them from others [166], which could also explain the fairly limited number of objects we can process simultaneously.”
Consciousness without a cerebral cortex: A challenge for neuroscience and medicine (2007, background): “, Singer, W. and Engel, A. K. (1998). Correlation analysis of cortico-tectal interactions in the cat visual system.”
An information integration theory of consciousness (2004, background): “On the integration side, the specialized elements of the thalamocortical system are linked by an extended network of intra- and inter-areal connections that permit rapid and effective interactions within and between areas [31-35].”
The neural basis of human moral cognition (2005, background): “; temporal binding among anatomically highly connected regions, also involved in PERCEPTUAL GESTALTS in the posterior corte”
Network-to-Network Translation with Conditional Invertible Neural Networks (2020, background): “One of the key features of intelligence is the ability to combine and transfer information between diverse domains and modalities [12, 73, 65, 68, 61].”
Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness: An Introduction (2007, background): “researchers (Llinas et al., 1998; Singer, 2001; Tononi & Edelman, 1998) have hypothesized some kind of integrative mechanisms or processes that, although transient, are able to orchestrate or coordinate functionally specialized brain regions.”
Task-Related Changes in Cortical Synchronization Are Spatially Coincident with the Hemodynamic Response (2002, background): “…show increasing evidence that frequency-specific synchronization between neurons (Gray and Singer, 1989) is correlated with function and may be the fundamental mechanism underlying perceptual binding (Engel and Singer, 2001) and even consciousness itself (Llinas et al., 1998; Singer, 2001).”
REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness (2009, background): “These include the provision of an automatic, built-in, self-organizing process that offers a spontaneous solution to the so-called binding problem”