Publication

Dynamic Protention: the architecture of real-time cognition for future events

Elliott, Mark
Coleman, Liam
Citation
Elliott, Mark A., & Coleman, Liam. (2019). Dynamic Protention: the architecture of real-time cognition for future events. In Timothy Hodgson (Ed.), Processes of Visuospatial Attention and Working Memory. Switzerland: Springer, Cham.
Abstract
For over thirty years now a body of physiological evidence has been acquired which indicates that cognitive operations coordinate via the phase synchronization of neuronal firing. While usually ascribed to ‘binding’, i.e. the putting together of basic perceptual, features to form more complex perceptual units, this ascription is not without critics, who identify phase synchronization as a function of sensori-motor coordination. From the perspective of an experimental paradigm used to measure the effects of stimulus synchronization, we discuss what is ‘bound’, and attempt a reconciliation between perceptual and sensori-motor accounts of oscillatory synchronization. Our evidence identifies a role for synchronization in protentive coding, this is to say, coding in anticipation of a future event, and hence describes the architecture of real-time cognition for future events.
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Publisher
Springer, Cham
Publisher DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-31026-4
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland