# Contested concept: global workspace (neural realization)

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: The disagreement is about whether the workspace is architectural or adaptive, which masks rival mechanistic hypotheses under one name.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/global workspace (neural realization)` (data: `/concept/global workspace (neural realization).json`)

## Senses in use
- **Fast adaptive mechanisms of neurons that learn when and how to adapt, with connectivity not mattering much** — used in 4 claim(s)
- **Widespread long-range cortical connectivity enabling integration and broadcast** — used in 4 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [Stanislas Dehaene extended the global workspace [of global workspace theory] with the "neuronal avalanche" showing how sensory information …](/claim/claim_0bc5d2b2b55d.md) _(sense: Widespread long-range cortical connectivity enabling integration and broadcast)_
- [Many brain regions, the prefrontal cortex, anterior temporal lobe, inferior parietal lobe, and the precuneus all send and receive numerous …](/claim/claim_25a534dcaeb5.md) _(sense: Widespread long-range cortical connectivity enabling integration and broadcast)_
- [According to the theory of practopoiesis, connectivity does not matter much [for achieving the global workspace in the brain].](/claim/claim_77d7f0d176fc.md) _(sense: Fast adaptive mechanisms of neurons that learn when and how to adapt, with connectivity not mattering much)_
- [The theory of practopoiesis suggests that the global workspace is achieved in the brain primarily through fast adaptive mechanisms of nerve…](/claim/claim_84c32b703a2a.md) _(sense: Fast adaptive mechanisms of neurons that learn when and how to adapt, with connectivity not mattering much)_
- [This global interpretation [the single coherent interpretation onto which multiple sensory modules converge] is broadcast back to the globa…](/claim/claim_88fb35694e03.md) _(sense: Widespread long-range cortical connectivity enabling integration and broadcast)_
- [For achieving a global workspace, the theory of practopoiesis presumes that the fast adaptive mechanisms of nerve cells have the capability…](/claim/claim_cb814e3f582d.md) _(sense: Fast adaptive mechanisms of neurons that learn when and how to adapt, with connectivity not mattering much)_
- [According to the theory of practopoiesis, what is critical is the fact that neurons can rapidly adapt to the sensory context within which t…](/claim/claim_dee7ae314641.md) _(sense: Fast adaptive mechanisms of neurons that learn when and how to adapt, with connectivity not mattering much)_
- [Multiple sensory modules can [because of the widespread projections among brain regions] converge onto a single coherent interpretation, fo…](/claim/claim_e94dcc3dc8d8.md) _(sense: Widespread long-range cortical connectivity enabling integration and broadcast)_