User:Arturo soledad/Cognitive neurophysics

Cognitive Neurophysics is a branch of Neuroscience that blends cognitive theory with the physical activity of the brain. As of today there are no known cognitive neurophysicists and the field has yet to find a firm footing in the Academic world. The field itself is grounded upon a #REDIRECT physicalist or #REDIRECT naturalist position stating that the phenomenon of #REDIRECT consciousness is wholly a cognitive function of the physical interactions of the brain. The correlates to conscious, semantic information was discovered by Patrick Suppes et. al. in his article Brain Wave Recognition of Words. In it, Suppes et. al. used fourier decomposition to analyze the best fit of proto-waves to recorded waves, discovering matches at above a chance level. Author Ian Malloy B.A., as outlined in his book pending publication, Essays in Cognitive Science: Collegiate Papers on Morality and Consciousness due to be released in the Spring of 2011 by Dorrance Publishing (ISBN 978-1-4349-8341-1), a Formal System is created and used to model five cognitive functions which in turn lend themselves to analysis through graphing, revealing a function equated with thinking that shows inherent instability in the decision making process based upon eigenvalues and brain waves, a method inspired by the work of Eugene M Izhikevich detailed in Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting (ISBN 978-0-262-09043-8).

By taking the temporal factor of consciousness discovered by Benjamin Libet and written of in Mind Time: The Temporal Factor of Consciousness (ISBN 0-674-01320-4) and incorporating Kristof Koch's 40 Hz. Binding Hypothesis explained in The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach (ISBN 0-9747077-0-8), non-relative values have been calculated for the limits of cognition Ian proposes which match the findings of Engel and Singer in their article "Temporal binding and the neural correlates of sensory awareness" and Doesburg et. al. in their article "Large-Scale Gamma-Band Phase Synchronization and Selective Attention" in which all authors point towards gamma-band phase synchronization and preceding alpha frequencies for bound, conscious experience. These findings have been calculated by Ian Malloy in his book "Essays in Cognitive Science", which lends support to the theory that physical phenomenon, when modeled correctly, reveals correlates to conscious experience.

The work of Patrick Suppes, Kristof Koch, Benjamin Libet, Jerry Fodor, and soon Ian Malloy lay the foundation towards a method of detailing a physical theory of consciousness that includes the cognitive aspect we experience through wakefulness and sleep. By using research from all fields that make up Cognitive Science the new field of cognitive neurophysics can find a foundation that would grant the ability to successfully demonstrate that the isomorphism of computational processes and physical processes is more than a mere, perfect coincidence and that answers may come from such a field to address questions such as, "Why are we conscious?", a question pressed to all Cognitive Scientists by David Chalmers.