The brain has a team of conductors orchestrating consciousness
The brain is like an orchestra: each region plays its part. But it takes a team of conductors to orchestrate consciousness
by Morten L Kringelbach & Gustavo Deco
Morten L Kringelbach is the director of the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at Linacre College, University of Oxford, where he is professor of neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry. He is also professor of neuroscience at Center for Music in the Brain at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. His latest book is Emotion: Pleasure and Pain in the Brain (2014), co-authored with Helen Phillips.
Written by Morten L Kringelbach