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The Role(s) of corticopetal acetylcholine (ACh) in perception and conscious flow is largely unknown. The attention hypothesis may well be established experimentally. The aim of this talk is to give a small review, and then try to extend further the arguments, on the role of corticopetal ACh in perception from a dynamical systems standpoint, to search for its possible role in perceptual binding, and in the transient genesis of quasi-attractors through the mechanism of changing synchrony.
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Fujii, H., Aihara, K., Tsuda, I. (2008). Corticopetal Acetylcholine: A Role in Attentional State Transitions and the Genesis of Quasi-Attractors During Perception. In: Wang, R., Shen, E., Gu, F. (eds) Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics ICCN 2007. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8387-7_44
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