Cinematic Theory of Cognition and Consciousness - Implications for Efficient Human-Computer Interactions

Recent advances in human brain monitoring provide increasingly detailed insights into the spatio-temporal neurodynamic processes contributing to cognition and consciousness. The view that cognition is not a smooth temporal process, rather it is a sequence of metastable states which have a duration of around 100 ms, becomes increasingly recognized. The cinematic theory of cognition is a potential approach to interpret these experimental findings. Recent extensions explore the possible link between the cinematic sequence and conscious broadcast events postulated by the Global Workspace Theory (GWT). The present work summarizes the existing arguments on this issue and elaborates on potential implications of this theory on the development of novel technologies for humancentered and efficient human-computer interaction.