Global Brain

Neuroscience Collaboration

Neuroscience
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The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain aimed to expand our understanding of the role of internal brain processes in the arc from sensation to action, and discover the nature, role and mechanisms of the neural activity that produces cognition.

Neuroscience research has relied heavily on studying sensation and action: how sensory stimuli are detected and perceived, and how movements are produced.

But much of what goes on in the brain is internal — states that control motivation and bias decisions, representations of remembered events, and cognitive explorations. A primary goal of the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) was to expand our understanding of the role of internal brain processes in the arc from sensation to action, and discover the nature, role and mechanisms of the neural activity that produces cognition.

Scientific Mission