Human consciousness can be defined as the inner subjective experience of mental states such as perceptions, judgments, thoughts, intentions to act, feelings or desires. These experiences are to be described from a subjective, phenomenal first-person account. On the other hand, cognitive neurosciences explore the neural correlates with respect to brain topology and brain dynamics from an objective third-person account.

 

 

To characterize corresponding neural phenomena that are parallel to conscious experiences expertise from functional neuroimaging, electrophysiology and neural modeling is integrated to develop an integrated view on the topological and dynamic coding principles of the human brain that are related to the phenomenon consciousness.