Neuropsychological and phenomenological aspects of attention

July 20, 2024

1. THE SALIENT BRAIN NETWORK

1. The reticular formation, basic mode network, central executive network

2. How your brain decides what matters

3. Your brains mechanical struggle for control

4. How self-awareness filters your world

5. Why intuition and impulsivity share brain wiring

6. Pinocchio’s cricket and the salience network

2. DORSAL AND VENTRAL FUNCTIONS – BASIC DESCRIPTIONS

2.1. Uniting dorsal focus and ventral intuition

2.2. Your attention harvests reality as raw material

2.3. The Mechanical Architecture of an epiphany

2.4. The invisible war between meaning and matter

3. ATTENTION IN SAINT GREGORY OF NYSSA

3.1. Ancient representation of attention

The Thrones and the fixation

3.3. The Seraphims and the focus

3.4. Deeper dive into the ventral attention

3.5. Formless idea, primordial scheme, suspicious flash

3.6. The cherubims and the general visual-optical frame

4. DORSAL AND VENTRAL ATTENTION – DEEP ANALYSIS

4.1 The a priori synthesis dorsal and ventral functions

4.2. Attention is not a toggle switch

4.3. Metaphorical representation of dorsal and ventral functions

Kalistrat Sandjakoski