The term posterior cortical hot zone was coined by Christof Koch and colleagues to describe the part of the neocortex closely associated with the minimal neural substrate essential for conscious perception.
When parts of the posterior cortex are damaged, whole modalities of sensory experience disappear from both waking and dreaming.
[2] Compare that to lesions of the cerebellum or frontal cortex that have little effect on sensory experience.
The objectNE binding mechanism, based on the Hebbian principle “neurons that fire together, wire together,” came to be known as the Binding-by-Synchrony hypothesis.
To account for the limitless constructive imagination, it was proposed that synchronization of independent objectNEs is a general mechanism underlying any novel imaginary experience.