Brain-mind operational architectonics imaging: technical and methodological aspects.

The Operational Architectonics framework explains how brain and mind function by analyzing the detailed operational behavior of local neuronal assemblies and their coordinated activity as unified, metastable operational modules. These modules form a hierarchy of brain operations underlying perception, cognition, and consciousness. The methods described allow mapping the temporal structure of brain activity through EEG/MEG, revealing how functional connectivity and operational synchrony among neuronal assemblies create the dynamic, symbolic, and isomorphic relationships between brain operations and mental phenomena. This theoretical approach integrates neurocomputational and dynamical systems perspectives to understand the binding of brain operations into conscious experience.

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This review paper deals with methodological and technical foundations of the Operational Architectonics framework of brain and mind functioning. This theory provides a framework for mapping and understanding important aspects of the brain mechanisms that constitute perception, cognition, and eventually consciousness. The methods utilized within Operational Architectonics framework allow analyzing with an incredible detail the operational behavior of local neuronal assemblies and their joint activity in the form of unified and metastable operational modules, which constitute the whole hierarchy of brain operations, operations of cognition and phenomenal consciousness.