Figure 3.

Illustration of the self-organized perception cycle based on the cinematic theory of cognition. (A) Superimposed band-pass filtered ECoG signals. (B) The 64 analytic amplitudes show beats with high amplitudes, interrupted with periods of reduced power, marked by blue bars (null spikes). The high amplitudes between the blue bars correspond to metastable amplitude modulation (AM) patterns carrying the cognitive content (frames). The null spikes are singularities localized in space and time, with high dispersion of the phases (shutter). (C) Following the singularity, large phase cones emerge, which manifest transition from microscopic disorder to macroscopic order (illustration by Chris Gralapp), from Kozma and Freeman (2016).