Switching on Activating the driving center. If the driving center active, it gives a basic background readiness to the shadow network wh...
Switching on
Activating the driving center. If the driving center active, it gives a basic background readiness to the shadow network which can be activated having this background excitation by the senso-motoric activities.
To activate the driving center, it can be made by senso-motoric pathways like as it implemented in nature, with pain-sensing structures or stimulus intensity limitation.
Or it can be implemented by specific neural structures, like how we wake up from sleep.
Switching off
Deactivation of the driving center.
It can be achieved by automatic deactivation when no activation circumstances are present. In this case, the activity of the driving center vanishes.
Or it can be achieved by specific inhibiting neural structures as it is implemented how we fall to sleep.
Awareness
The active state of the driving center. It provides readiness to the shadow network which means a basic level of the excited state. When the system aware it's conscious. Awareness isn't sense-specific because the shadow network doesn't distinguish between sensory inputs.
Attention
Beyond readiness potential, different parts of the shadow network can be a differently excited state. When a part of the shadow network is in a more excited state, it provides stronger and more diverse excitation to the connecting neural structures, to the connecting senso-motoric pathways. Attention arise.
This differently excited state can be achieved by excitation of the shadow network from the side of the active senso-motoric pathways. If the connected senso-motoric pathway in a more excited state then the connected shadow network is in a more excited state.
Or it can be achieved from the side of the driving center. The driving center has projections to different parts of the shadow network. These projections can have different excitation potential. If a driving center's projection has stronger excitation potential, then the excited part of the shadow network is in a more excited state.
Driving the attention
Driving attention by an unconditioned excitation means raising the excitation level of the shadow network by using the primary determined stimulation system that I called the primary critical stimulus in the description of the UAA-system theory. These primary critical stimulus systems are developed by evolution in the living systems. These can be special, which called pain-sensory systems or the unconditioned excitation can be excitation level driven.
Driving attention by a conditioned excitation means that the shadow network's excitation level raised by a stimulus that didn't have this potential initially and gained to have this potential in a conditioned, learned way. I called this kind of excitation as a secondary critical stimulus in the UAA-system theory.
The living brain has different methods to achieve this and can be achieved by the same time excitation of a critical and non-critical pathway. When a non-critical sensory pathway is excited at the same time with a critical pathway, then the pathway which wasn't critical before becomes critical and capable of exciting the shadow network by itself.
This can be the method of how we can gain attention from a stimulus that can't create attention before or contrary to loose attention from a stimulus that can create attention beforehand.
If the system has language capabilities, then it can cause attention in a specific way. This topic worth to have its own thought. (see Attention by conditioned and programmed excitation)
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