Theories of consciousness using neurobiological data or being influenced by these data have been focused either on states of consciousness or contents of consciousness. These theories have occasionally used evidence from psychophysical phenomena where conscious experience is a dependent experimental variable. However, systematic catalog of many such relevant phenomena has not been offered in terms of these theories. In the perceptual retouch theory of thalamocortical interaction, recently developed to become a blend with the dendritic integration theory, consciousness states and contents of consciousness are explained by the same mechanism. This general-purpose mechanism has modulation of the cortical layer-5 pyramidal neurons that represent contents of consciousness as its core. As a surplus, many experimental psychophysical phenomena of conscious perception can be explained by the workings of this mechanism. Historical origins and current views inherent in this theory are presented and reviewed.

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表征性“触摸”和调节性“修饰”——丘脑皮质相互作用中意识体验的两个必要的神经生物学过程。

使用神经生物学数据或受这些数据影响的意识理论要么关注意识状态，要么关注意识内容。这些理论偶尔会使用来自心理物理现象的证据，其中意识体验是一个因实验变量。然而，这些理论尚未提供许多此类相关现象的系统目录。在丘脑皮质相互作用的知觉修饰理论中，最近发展成为与树突整合理论的融合，意识状态和意识内容是通过相同的机制来解释的。这种通用机制以代表意识内容的皮质第五层锥体神经元的调制为核心。作为一种剩余，许多意识知觉的实验心理物理现象可以通过这种机制的运作来解释。对该理论固有的历史渊源和当前观点进行了介绍和回顾。