Essentials of the neuron theory of subconscious and conscious decisions, evaluation of neuron mechanisms speed, reliability and trainability
Matiushkin, D.P.
Aviakosmicheskaia i Ekologicheskaia Meditsina 43(2): 45-50
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0233-528X PMID: 19621803 Document Number: 634736
Essentials of the neuron theory of subconscious and conscious decision-making are demonstrated with reference to science literature. Basically, they are mutual inhibition of competing neurons representing different vectors of attention and action. Neuron pairs with direct inhibitory relations exist in reticular structures of the trunk, including the thalamus and hypothalamus, and in striatum. These are the fastest decision-making structures, neuronal makers of subconscious decisions. The author dwells on the intricate neuron structures of conscious decisions involving the cortex and limbic processes as well as the striatum and thalamus, and also a simpler implementation of conditioned reactions. There from he undertakes the comparison of speed, reliability and trainability of subconscious and conscious decisions, and simpler conditioned reactions.