Editing Global workspace theory (section)

== Global neuronal workspace ==
{{Main|Dehaene–Changeux model}}
[[Stanislas Dehaene]] extended the global workspace with the "neuronal avalanche" showing how sensory information gets selected to be broadcast throughout the cortex.{{sfn|Dehaene|2015|pp=161,177}} Many brain regions, the prefrontal cortex, anterior temporal lobe, inferior parietal lobe, and the precuneus all send and receive numerous projections to and from a broad variety of distant brain regions, allowing the neurons there to integrate information over space and time. Multiple sensory modules can therefore converge onto a single coherent interpretation, for example, a "red sports car zooming by". This global interpretation is broadcast back to the global workspace creating the conditions for the emergence of a single state of consciousness, at once differentiated and integrated.

Alternatively, the theory of [[practopoiesis]] suggests that the global workspace is achieved in the brain primarily through fast adaptive mechanisms of nerve cells.{{sfn|Nilolic|2015}} According to that theory, connectivity does not matter much. Critical is rather the fact that neurons can rapidly adapt to the sensory context within which they operate. Notably, for achieving a global workspace, the theory presumes that these fast adaptive mechanisms have the capability to learn when and how to adapt.