Head Sensors Area (HSA)

• Owned Functions
  • capture events from external world
  • capture static data from external world
  • expressing sensing behaviour
• Involved in Functions
  • perceptions of various modalities
  • pay attention to selected area / overt attention
  • tracking objects / covert attention
  • saccadic perception / covert attention

• Inbound
  • (External World) -> sensor data
  • PCA -> BSA -> low-level sensory control in perception
  • ACA -> BSA -> attention area selection
• Outbound
  • sensory data -> BSA
  • perception control feedback -> THA -> PCA
  • attention sensor control feedback -> THA -> ACA
  • sensory state expression -> (External World)

Thalamus Area (THA)

• diencephalon
  • thalamus
  • hypothalamus
• limbic system
  • septal nuclei

• Owned Functions
  • visceral control center of the body
  • relaying sensation, spatial sense and motor signals to the cerebral cortex
  • regulation of consciousness, sleep and alertness
  • control memory, attention and alertness
  • controller of theta rhythm
• Involved in Functions
  • effector control system
  • perceptions of various modalities
  • cortical regulation of the thalamic activity
  • modulatory, life support and the sleep/wake cycle
  • attention, planning, organization
  • abstract thinking, multi-tasking and active memory

• Relay
  • BSA -> sensor data -> PCA
  • BSA -> sensor data (lateral posterior nucleus, pulvinar) -> HCA
  • BSA -> perception (intralaminar) -> BGA
  • BSA -> cerebellum effector control feedback -> ACA
  • BSA -> body sensations -> ACA
  • BSA -> pain -> PCA
  • HCA -> alerts, (anterior/medial nuclei) -> ACA
  • BGA -> sensory data (ventral posterolateral/posteromedial nucleus) -> ACA
  • BGA -> striatum effector control feedback -> ACA
• Reciprocal
  • PCA -> (medial nuclei) -> PCA
  • HCA -> (anterior nuclei) -> HCA
  • ACA -> (medial nuclei) -> ACA

Anterior Cortex Area (ACA)

• frontal lobe
• parietal lobe
  • primary somatosensory cortex
• limbic system
  • cingulate cortex
    • anterior cingulate cortex

• Owned Functions
  • self-consciousness / personality / identity
  • top-level complex planning / imagination
  • inhibition control
  • model of good ideal behaviour / morality
  • top-level patterned effector actions
  • cortex individual effector actions and sensor control
  • top-level error and conflict detection
  • guide task selection
  • monitor progress
  • basic sensations of the body
  • working memory
• Involved in Functions
  • sensory integration
  • representing the affective value of reinforcers
  • decision-making

• Inbound
  • BGA -> THA -> sensory data
  • PCA -> perception data
  • HCA -> past experience
  • HCA -> reward signals (orbitomedial PFC)
  • BSA -> THA -> body senses
  • THA -> bioregulatory responses
• Outbound
  • current converged sensory input (pcf) -> HCA
  • motor/behavioral commands -> PCA
  • reward, feedback to bias flow along expectation -> PCA
  • motor control -> BSA
  • anti-inhibitory emotional context -> BGA
  • inhibitory emotional context -> BGA
  • guidance of movement -> BGA
  • (premotor) -> THA

Posterior Cortex Area (PCA)

• occipital lobe
• parietal lobe
  • superior parietal lobule
  • inferior parietal lobule
  • intraparietal sulcus
  • general interpretation area
• limbic system
  • cingulate cortex
    • posterior cingulate cortex

• Owned Functions
  • body sensations relationships / body image
  • opinions
  • simple specific sensor spatial primitives
  • intermediate specific sensor spatial and temporal patterns
  • object representation from specific sensor
  • episodic memory, emotion, navigation, resting
• Involved in Functions
  • semantics
  • reading both in regards to meaning and phonology
  • guidance of limb and eye movement

• Inbound
  • HSA -> BSA -> THA -> sensory data
  • HSA -> BSA -> THA -> sensory perception control feedback
  • HCA -> THA -> long-term memory sequences
  • BSA -> THA -> pain
  • ACA -> reward, feedback to bias flow along expectation
• Outbound
  • sensory data -> HCA
  • associations -> THA -> ACA
  • guide saccadic perception -> BSA -> HSA
  • feelings -> ACA

Hippocampus Area (HCA)

• temporal lobe
• limbic system
  • hippocampus
  • fornix

• Owned Functions
  • specific sensor perception and memory
  • working memory
  • autobiographical/declarative/episodic memories
  • formation and storing spatial declarative memory
  • encoding and recognition of scenes, spatial relations
  • detection of novel events, places and stimuli, spatial coding
  • distinguishing multiple instances of similar events, multiple visits to the same location
  • emotional and affective state
  • distinguishing stress and depression
  • assigning stimuli to categorical classes
  • habits, visceral sensations
• Involved in Functions
  • memory consolidation
  • memory optimization in sleep
  • recognition and identification of environmental stimuli

• Inbound
  • PCA -> primary and secondary sensory perception
  • PCA -> polymodal/associative sensory perception
  • ACA -> converged sensory input
  • BSA -> sensory input (hierarchical sensory pathway)
  • THA -> emotional stimulus
  • THA -> modulatory inputs
  • THA (septum) -> (fornix) -> initiation of hippocampal thata-rithm
• Outbound
  • sensory association -> BGA
  • reward signals -> ACA
  • past experience -> ACA
  • mismatch signal (to raise ACh in HC to facilitate encoding) -> THA (septum)
  • match signal (to attenuate ACh in HC to facilitate retrieval) -> THA (septum)

Basal Ganglia Area (BGA)

• limbic system
  • basal ganglia
  • amygdala

• Owned Functions
  • starting, stopping and monitoring movement
  • inhibit unnecessary movement
  • planning and modulation of actions, regulate actions
  • reward, pleasure, addiction, fear
  • reward and incentive motivation
  • acquisition and maintenance of a new strategy
  • mediate learning about irrelevant stimuli
  • action selection
  • block slow thinking
  • quick threat assessment
  • signalling cortex of motivationally significant stimuli
• Involved in Functions
  • learning and memory system
  • influence various types of learning

• Inbound
  • ACA -> anti-inhibitory emotional context
  • ACA -> inhibitory emotional context
  • HCA -> sensory association
• Outbound
  • regulation -> ACA
  • cognition -> ACA
  • instant actions -> BSA
  • sensory data (auditory, dorsal auditory pathway) -> PCA

Brain Stem Area (BSA)

• brain stem
• cerebellum

• Owned Functions
  • autonomic behavior, autonomic, involuntary functions
  • integrate sensors and effectors for precise timing of actions
  • maintain wakefulness and attention
  • modulation of outbound effectors information
  • preliminary specific sensor processing
  • complex actions, sequential thinking
  • attention, coordination, precision, and accurate timing
  • inhibits neuronal maturation
• Involved in Functions
  • control of specific sensor
  • many unconscious homeostatic and reflexive pathways
  • sensor control, effector planning
  • reward seeking, learning, and addiction
  • sleep, equilibrium, sensor control, expressing emotions
  • control actions power and coordination of multiple actions
  • control cerebellum/basal ganglia/neocortex effector actions
  • planning actions

• Inbound
  • TBD
• Outbound
  • TBD

Spinal Cord Area (SCA) (Body)

• spinal cord
• (peripheral nervous system)

• Owned Functions
  • body feeling
  • affect general body state
  • generating proprioceptive information
  • conveys inconscient proprioceptive information
• Involved in Functions
  • activate effectors
  • distal effector actions

• Inbound
  • TBD
• Outbound
  • TBD