The Global Neuronal Workspace Model of Conscious Access: From Neuronal Architectures to Clinical Applications
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In GWA, the Stage is engineered as Short-Term Working Memory, the Spotlight is instantiated as the Attention Node, and the Audience is implemented as a swarm of heterogeneous LLM agents.
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“Translating this cognitive framework into a verifiable multi-agent engineering architecture requires a precise functional mapping [18].”
- Authors
- Dehaene, S., Changeux, J.-P., & Naccache, L.
- Affiliations
- Université Paris-Sud (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Dehaene, Stanislas
- Venue
- Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 2011
- Pages
- 55-84
- ISSN
- 0945-6082 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W154568992
- Cited by
- 209
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 13.47
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Research and perspectives in neurosciences (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- conscious access, subliminal processing, neural correlates of consciousness, coma, vegetative state, single-cell electrophysiology, event-related potentials, magnetoencephalography, functional MRI, positron emission tomography
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