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In the last chapter, the attentional process was presented somewhat mechanically as a two-phase evaluating process—upstream and downstream—with the two phases activated, respectively, at the subcortical thalamic—basal gangliar complex and after substantial processing in the cortex, in the amygdaloid—hippocampal complex. Subject to influences impinging on them from the surrounding behavioral systems, these centers either (1) activate or fail to activate the consciousness system, (2) excite or inhibit arousal and brain activation, (3) tie positively evaluated events into the consciousness system, and (4) appropriately direct the beam of attention.
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Kissin, B. (1986). Recognition, Memory Retrieval, Mental Set, and Other Decisional Operations of the Neocortex. In: Conscious and Unconscious Programs in the Brain. Psychobiology of Human Behavior, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2187-3_9
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