title: Does the corollary discharge of attention exist?
abstract: We discuss experimental support for the existence of a corollary discharge signal of attention movement control and its formulation in terms of the corollary discharge of attention model of attention movement (CODAM). The data is from fMRI, MEG and EEG activity observed about 200 ms after stimulus onset in various attention paradigms and in which the activity is mainly sited in parietal and extra-striate visual areas. Moreover the data arises from neural activity observed before report of a subject's experience occurs. The overall experimental support for the existence of a copy of the attention movement control signal generates, it is suggested, a viable route to explore the relation between this signal and human consciousness, as concluded in the paper.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, King's College, Strand, London WC2R2LS, UK. john.g.taylor@kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D054518:Attentional Blink; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D056228:Feedback, Sensory; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D015225:Magnetoencephalography; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D009433:Neural Inhibition; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D014796:Visual Perception