Daniel Bor
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge; Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Queen Mary University of London
Functionalist What matters is the organisation of the processing, not the material
Daniel Bor works on the prefrontal-parietal network, the circuit most consistently linked to conscious content in imaging studies. With Anil Seth he co-authored a widely cited synthesis of consciousness and the prefrontal parietal network covering attention, working memory, and chunking, and his experimental work measures how the brain compresses experience into reusable structures.
That compression angle is his distinctive contribution to consciousness science. Chunking treats awareness as a workspace that holds a small number of rich packages rather than a stream of raw detail, which connects directly to global workspace accounts of consciousness where capacity limits define the bottleneck that makes contents conscious.
In the August 2026 medRxiv preprint on perceptual awareness in Alzheimer’s disease (doi:10.64898/2026.08.27.26356661), Bor co-authored the multimodal test of whether EEG and fMRI awareness markers survive neurodegeneration, work that treats the fronto-parietal signature as a clinical indicator rather than a philosophical position.
Known for. Prefrontal-parietal network studies of consciousness, working memory and chunking, the rule-plus-exception model of categorization
Coverage on this site
- Perceptual Awareness in Alzheimer Disease Measured by EEG and fMRI in Huntley and Mediano's 2026 Study October 2026
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Daniel Bor is listed with the other functionalists and computationalists, who hold that what matters is the organisation of the processing, not the material. The theory family behind that position is set out in the index of consciousness theories. Every researcher covered on this site is indexed in the directory of consciousness researchers.